The American Institute of
Criminal Law and Criminology

Northwestern University Building
31 W. Lake St., CHICAGO, ILL.

Journal of the American Institute of

Criminal Law and Criminology

Official Organ of the American Institute of Criminal Law and

Criminology; of the American Prison Association; and

of the American Society of Military Law.

Managing Editor, ROBERT H. GAULT,

Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University.

Managing Director, FREDERIC B. CROSSLEY,

Librarian of the Elbert H. Gary Collection of Criminal Law and

Criminology, Northwestern University.

Subscribers who wish to discontinue their subscriptions at the end of the

subscription period should notify the business office of the Journal; otherwise it

will be assumed that a continuation is desired.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Herman Adler, Illinois State Criminologist,

Chicago.

Sophonisba S. Breckenridge, University of

Chicago, Chicago.

Frederic B. Crossley, Librarian of the

Elbert H. Gary Collection of Criminal

Law and Criminology, Northwestern Uni-

versity.

Katherine Bement Davis, Chairman, Parole

Board, New York City.

Raymond B. Fosdick, Member of the Bar.

New York City.

James W. Garner, Professor of Political

Science, University of Illinois.

Bernard Glueck, School of Social Work,

New York City.

William Healy, Director of the Judge

Baker Foundation, Boston.

Joel D. Hunter, General Superintendent,

United Charities, Chicago.

Edwin R. Keedy, Professor of Law, Uni-

versity of Pennsylvania.

Edward Lindsey, Judge of the Common

Pleas Court, Warren, Pa.

F. Emory Lyon, Superintendent Central

Howard Association, Chicago.

Adolf Meyer, Professor of Psychiatry,

John Hopkins University.

Nathan William MacChesney, of the Chi-

cago Bar; Commissioner on Uniform

State Laws.

Robert W. Millar, Professor of Law,

Northwestern University.

John R. Oliver, Medical Officer to the

Supreme Bench, Baltimore.

James Bronson Reynolds, North Haven,

Conn., President of the Institute.

Harold Shepherd, Professor of Law, State

University, Laramie, Wyo.

Edwin W. Sims, Member of the Chicago

Bar; President of the Chicago Crime
Commission.

Arthur J. Todd, Professor of Sociology,
Northwestern University.

Chester G. Vernier, Professor of Law,

Stanford University, Cal.

August Vollmer, Chief of Police, Berkeley,

California.

Guy Montrose Whipple, Professor of Edu-

cational Psychology, University of Michi-

gan.

John H. Wigmore, Dean of the Northwest-

ern University Law School.

EDITORIALS:

CONTENTS

The Environment of the Municipal Court-Facilities for

Medical and Psychiatric Examination-The Public Defender

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