This year’s conference (Boston, June 7-14) bids fair to be the best
yet. The topics in general are timely and fundamental. The Committee
on Lawbreakers will have for its general session the opening evening,
Wednesday, the seventh. In addition to the committee report, a speaker
of national reputation will give an address. In the section meetings
the topics will be, respectively, the care of defective delinquents,
modern methods of dealing with misdemeanants, and the development of
systems of probation and parole. The section meetings will be “round
table” discussions, open to all.