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The Prevention of Crime as Conceived by the International Congresses and Meetings on Criminal Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Shlomo Shoham
Shlomo Shoham*
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Bar-Ilan University (Israël)
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The guiding principle seems to be the age-old truism that to prevent the occurence of a disease is far better than a trying to cure it after the harm to the human body has already been done; i.e. that prevention is likely to be more successful than treatment. The current definition of prevention was expounded by an international congress which was devoted entirely to problems of prevention—It stated that criminal prophylaxy may be defined as the sum total of measures taken against the possible commission or repetition of offences. It should be pointed out that the international deliberations on criminal policy do not seem to confine themselves to the ante-delictual prevention of possible infractions of the criminal law but seem to expand more and more over numerous types of socially abnormal conduct, and sometimes engulfs the whole field of social welfare.

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Première Partie: Doctrine: II — La Prévention Du Crime: Le rôle de l'école, des cliniques d'orientation et des organisations de jeunesse
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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , 1962 , pp. 123 - 138
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Copyright © 1962 International Society for Criminology

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References

(1) International Review of Criminal Policy, n° 7-8, p. 31.

(2) IV Congress of the International Association of Social Defence (Milan 1956).

(3) Actes du Congrès (Bruxelles 1954) p. 299 et s.

(4) Paris, 1949.

(5) Cairo, 1953.

(6) Rio de Janeiro, 1953.

(7) Rangoon, 1954.

(8) U.N. Report on the Seminar, p. 56 et s.

(9) P. Comil : Rapport de Synthèse (Milan 1956) p. 20.

(10) P. Comil : Rapporteur de Synthèse infractions dolosives, p. 29.

(11) «Le diagnostic de l’état dangereux», II Congrès international de criminologie 12 Rapport général de M. Osvaldo Loudet.

(12) «Studi recenti sulla penalità», Giornale napolitane di filisofia e lettere, 1878.

(13) Vide : M. Ancel : La Défense Sociale nouvelle, Paris 1954, pp. 58-59.

(14) Vide : E. Ferri : Criminal Sociology (American ed.) pp, 42-43.

(15) Paris, 1950.

(16) Vide : Deuxième cours international de criminologie : Le problème de l’état dangereux (Paris 1953) p. 332.

(17) Premier Cours international de criminologie; les indices de l’état dangereux; l’examen médico-psychologique et social des délinquants (Paris 1952) p. 639 et s.

(18) Premier Cours international de Criminologie (Paris 1952) p. 640.

(19) Deuxième Cours international de Criminologie (Paris 1953) pp. 334-335.

(20) 2nd International Congress of Criminology (Paris 1950).

(21) This group corresponds roughly to the Italian positivists’ pseudo-delinquents.

(22) Deuxième Cours international de Criminologie (Paris 1953) p. 335.

(23) Ibid.

(24) Premier Cours international de Criminologie (Paris 1952) p. 641.

(25) Vide : I.-J. Biggs: The Guilty mind (H.]. 1955) p. 164. II. B Karomon : Criminal Psycho-dynamics; 57 J. Crim. Law and Crimin. p. 11.

(26) Vide: The Treatment of Recidivists; 47, J. Crim. Law Crimin. (1956) p. 2.

(27) Vide : Bromberg : Crime and the Mind p. 36.

(28) Vide : Michael and Adler : An Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice (N. J. 1932) pp. 140-141.

(29) 2nd International Congress of Criminology (Paris, 1950).

(30) Penal and Penitentiary Congress (The Hague, 1950), Proceedings, Vol II, p. 582.

(31) Paris (1950).

(32) For a full description and analyses of these prediction tables see : S. & E. Glueck, Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency (N.-Y. 1950).

(33) U.-N. International Review of Criminal Policy, No 7-8, pp. 29-30.

(34) For a full and clear exposition of modem trends in criminological thought see : G.-B. Vold: Theoretical Criminology (N. Y. 1958).

(35) U.N. International Review of Criminal Policy, n° 7-8, p. 29.

(36) « Personality, characteristics of Criminals », American Journal of Sociology 55 : 476-84, March 1950.

(37) Premier Cours international de criminologie (Paris 1952) p. 21 et s.

(38) Milan, 1956.

(39) ibid., Rapport de synthèse.

(40) Ibid.

(41) I. U.N. International Review of Criminal Policy, No 7-8, p. 72.

II. See also European Regional Consultative Group on the Prevention of crime and Treatment of Offenders (Geneva 1952).

(42) U.N. 1st Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (Geneva 1955). Report prepared by the Secretariat, p. 79.

(43) 1st U.N. Congress on Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders.

(44) Asia and the Far Eeast Seminar on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of offenders.

(45) 1st U.N. Congress, op. cit.

(46) Asia and the Far East Seminar, op. cit.

(47) The Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency in Selected European Countries, U.N. 1955, p. 145.

(48) 1st U.N. Congress on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, op, cit.

(49) See : Sellin, Culture conflict and crime (N, Y. 1938) pp. 58 et s.

(50) Ibid.

(51) ibid.

(52) I. The Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency in Selected European Countries (U. N. 1955) p. 145.

II. U. N. 1st Congress of Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (Geneva 1955).

(53) 1st U.N. Congress on Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders.

(54) The Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency in Selected European Countries, p. 145

(55) See : I. U. N. International Review of Criminal Policy, N° 7-8, pp. 37 et s.

II. Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency in Selected European Countries, p. 145 et s.

(56) Summaries of Recommendations for Action (U.S. Government Printing Office 1947), pp. 15-16.

(57) Rangoon, 1954.

(58) Brussels, 1958.

(59) Ibid., Rapport de synthèse, première section.

(60) Ibid., General Report : La liberté surveillée et la tutelle éducative.

(61) Ibid.

(62) Juvenile Delinquency. Interim Report of the Subcommittees of the Committee on the Judiciary to Study Juvenile Delinquency in the U.S. 83rd Congress (Washington D.C. 1953).

(63) 2e Cours international de criminologie (Paris 1953), p. 52-53.

(64) Regional seminar on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (Rangoon 1954).

(65) U.N. International Review of Criminal Policy, No 7-8, p. 32.

(66) Geneva 1955; Report Prepared by the Secretariat, p. 80 et s.

(67) Ibid., p. 81.

(68) Ibid., p. 80.

(69) Rangoon, 1954; Report of Annex IV.

(70) Brussels 1958. General Report; la liberté surveillée et la tutelle éducative.

(71) See : U.N. International Review of Criminal Policy, No 7-8, pp. 42-43.

(72) Vide : The resolution to that effect of the U.N. Middle East (Cairo 1953) and Asia and Far East Seminars (Rangoon 1954) on the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders.

(73) Psychiatric Aspects of Juvenile Delinquency (Geneva 1951) p. 79.

(74) Bruxelles, 1954, Proceedings of the Congress, p. 302.

(75) IVe Congrès international de défense sociale (Milan 1956), Rapport de synthèse.

(76) Ibid.

(77) Regional Consultative Group on Prevention of Crime and Treatment of offenders (Geneva 1956).

(78) I. European Regional Consultative Group (Geneva 1958). II. IVe Congrès international de défense sociale, Rapport général, Aspects juridiques (Dol.) (Milan 1956).

(79) Ibid.