All Monographs are available from International Journal of Offender Therapy, 199 Gloucester Place, London NW1 6BU, England
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Offender Therapy Series APTO MonographsAll Monographs are available from International Journal of Offender Therapy, 199 Gloucester Place, London NW1 6BU, England SAGE Publications, Inc.1971DOI: 10.1177/0306624X7101500210 The Court and the Expert: Writing Reports, Vol. 1, Essays in Comparative Forensic Psychiatry, F. Ferracuti, M. Schmideberg, D. H. Russell et al., APTO Monograph No. 3, June 1970, $3.50. Many courts are anxious to achieve rehabilitation of the offender, but they can only do this with the help of professionals. This Monograph shows how in some courts a genuine partnership has grown up 'between the law and the expert, so that where possible the court receives expert advice and evaluation and certain criminals receive therapy. Drug-taking Girls in England, Special APTO Monograph, T. F. Hart. Introduction by Prof. T. N. Gibbens, $3.50. This detailed survey of drug-taking teenagers by the Superintendent of England's foremost Girls' Remand Home gives insight into an increasing menace. In 1966-9 one fifth of all girls coming into the Remand Home were found to have used drugs - three to four times more than those in charge of them realised. Subsequent admissions show increasing drug-taking, personality disturbance and delinquency. The rate of progression is high from the non-narcotic