In the first group of programmes criminologists and other specialists have been discussing theories of crime and the criminal. The next group is about the practitioner-men and women who actually deal with the criminal, particularly the young. In tonight's programme Dr. Alan Little , of the London School of Economics, talks to a juvenile court magistrate. In the following weeks he talks to a probation officer and the head of a detention centre, a borstal, and an approved school. The last programme in this group is given over to a consumer's view. Three boys in a borstal talk about their experiences in the juvenile court, a detention centre, and the other institutions on which the series has focused.
7: Juvenile Court
' Absorbing interest, always fascination, always feeling that hardly any case is like another. Everything is different. Extraordinary diversity of children and parents. And always learning and never feeling one knows the answer at all '
DR. ALAN LITTLE of the London School of Economics talks to
MRS. G. RICHARDSON , a magistrate at Westminster Juvenile Court in London about the court and its work
Produced by Richard Hooper