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is the Colonie de Mettray, a pioneer in juvenile reforma- 

 tories. 



At the University of Lyon are a museum of legal 

 medicine and a museum of criminal anthropology. 



Penal Administration. The large number of "patro- 

 nages, "particularly for the care and protection of neglected 

 and delinquent children in Paris, Lyon, Le Havre, and 

 other large cities, offer opportunity for research into 

 both causative and preventive factors in crime. Nor 

 should the "Tribunaux pour enfants et adolescents" 

 be overlooked. So important has this juvenile court 

 movement become that a special journal, the " Revue 

 des Tribunaux pour Enfants," was founded in 1913. Its 

 collaborators include Senator BERENGER (the great philan- 

 thropist who fathered the probation system of 1891), Pro- 

 fessors CUCHE of Grenoble, GAR^ON and LE POITTEVIN of 

 Paris, GARRATID of Lyon, and such distinguished advocates 

 and judges as ALBANEL, FLORY, LEMERCIER, PREVOST, 

 PRUDHOMME, ROBERT, ROLLET, TEUTSCH, and VIDAL- 

 NAQUET. The famous psychological clinic founded by 

 BINET at the University of Paris furnishes opportunities 

 for co-ordinating this study of juvenile delinquency; the 

 so-called "Binet-Simon scale" is the basis for most of 

 the psychopathic testing employed in American courts 

 and institutions. 



Finally, the admirable statistical service of both 

 national and municipal bureaus offers to the student 

 unusual opportunities for access to bodies of statistical 

 fact and also for training in statistical method. The 

 French official "Compte general de 1 'administration de 

 la justice," beginning in 1826, is the longest systematic 

 record available for any country in the world. 



