Missing Experts
ISTENING for the second time, after the lapse of a year, to Donald MacKenzie’s talk on remedial work in the series The Criminal Mind, I was reminded of a story I heard when the talks were first broadcast. I was told that long-term prisoners in one gaol who had their own radios listened with notebooks ready, and some expressed the opinion that the speakers had something there, and some said they didn’t know what they were talking about. Which made me think that for a balanced view of the criminal mind some of the speakers ought perhaps to have been criminals. And why not have juvenile delinquents talking about juvenile delinquency? An engaging prospect but perhaps they might remain as inscrutable as adolescents talking about adolescence, an experiment which has been tried. Meanwhile, speaking with no first-hand experience-that the law knows about-I found all four talks admirable and this one not the least. It was, perhaps less assured and hopeful than the others, since, as Mr. MacKenzie said, diagnosis is easier than cure; but I found it a hopeful sign that our prisons would employ a man who is ready to say that prison is a wholly unnatural environment in which to try and
adjust men to society.
R. D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 913, 8 February 1957, Page 13
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213Missing Experts New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 913, 8 February 1957, Page 13
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