The Hawkspur Experiment: An Informal Account of the Training of Wayward Adolescents

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W. David Wills

The Hawkspur Experiment

An Informal Account of the Training of Wayward Adolescents

W. David Wills

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English

Routledge
29 December 2022

Social issues & processes; Age groups: adolescents; Juvenile offenders

Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Adolescent

Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute the popular assumption at the time that a ‘bit of discipline’ is what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent tendencies, this book is much more than that.

Basically an account of a kind of voluntary Borstal Institution of which the author was head from 1936 to 1940, its interest on reissue in 1967 lay in the fact that it contained the germinal ideas of most of the day’s newest methods in penal treatment, not just as ideas, but in practice. Here is the therapeutic community in embryo, here are the beginnings of group therapy, of inmate participation in treatment, of therapy through relationships. None of them are mentioned by name – the names had not been invented; but anyone who wanted to understand the trends in the treatment of delinquent and maladjusted people at the time would find it all here in simple untechnical English.

The book is also an account of an enthralling experience, exciting and interesting in itself, apart from any social significance. Just before the camp started, Alec Paterson said to David Wills, ‘Do you really think you can run a place of this kind without the use of punishment?’ Wills said he didn’t know, but looked forward to trying. Readers of this book may judge for themselves how far he succeeded. A particularly interesting feature of this edition is the account of the subsequent lives of the many boys who were at Hawkspur.

By: W. David Wills
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9781032380452
ISBN 10: 1032380454
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Adolescent
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 29 December 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition. 1. The Common Cause 2. The Common Cure 3. This Freedom 4. Camp Council 5. Camp Council – Continued 6. Punishment 7. Work and Wages 8. Fathers and Sons 9. The Transference 10. Bunkers and Grousers 11. Sex 12. Homosexuality 13. Religion 14. Conclusion. Index.