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Book reviews...THE NEW MEXICAN IT. •. by Alice BullockThe case against girls' homes'THE WIRE WOMB by p, Lamp-man. 181 pp. Nelson Hall Publishers. No price quoted.In 1952 the Lampman family traveledthrough Mexico and the American west, and decided they particularly liked New Mexico.- They collectively decided to leave their Wisconsin home and make a new home (literally) in Roswell. Dr. and Mre. Lampman and their three children buill an adobe house and Dr. Lampman became aty school director of guidance, holding this post for seven years. He is nowdirector of Social-PsychologicalVocational Services at the New Mexico Rehabilitation Center in Roswell.“The Wire Womb” is a series of case histories dealing with institutionalized girls, girls found to be incorrigible by courts. The cases quoted are real, though the names are changed. Certainly the idrls, the staff, the probation officers, and the governing board are vividly presented.Lampman’s sympathy is with the girls and their case histories become tear jerkers as he probes into the reasons for their behavior. The most obstreperous cases, when studied deeply, become pitiful as the girls fight back in the only way they know how. Lampman is frankly trying to force a revision of juvenile codes and administrative practices in penal institutions for girls. He makes a good case for the methods in which he sincerely believes. His thesis must seem more than a bit Utopian to the ordinary citizen. Society and parents are always at fault rather than the girls.. To quote Shakespeare, “Methinks he doth protest too much!”TV i *Henry P. Lampman
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Sun, Apr 08, 1973
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