A. LaMont Smith Collection, 1932-1989

Processed by: Annie Golden

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A. LaMont Smith Collection, 1932-1989

Collection number: MSS 299

Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections

University of the Pacific Library

Stockton, California

Processed by:: Annie Golden
Date Completed:: March 2003
Encoded by:: Nicole Grady 2015

Descriptive Summary

Title: A. LaMont Smith collection

Dates: 1932-1989

Collection number: MSS 299

Creator: Smith, A. LaMont

Collection Size: 5.5 linear feet

Repository: University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Dept. of Special Collections

Stockton, California 95211

Abstract: The collection contains research papers and theses; minutes from the California Board of Corrections; California legislative committee reports; information on county jails and detention facilities in California; inmate counseling; jail standards for California; reports on probation and parole in California. The collection also includes materials from the UNRRA. These items are mainly guides and manuals on how to handle the problem of displaced persons in Germany after World War II.

Physical location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English

Access

Collection open for research.

Publication Rights

Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred Citation

A. LaMont Smith collection. MSS 299. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.

Biography / Administrative History

Dr. A. LaMont Smith, a Criminal Justice Consultant, had a long and distinguished career in the criminal justice field. He began his career in 1935, as the Assistant County Probation Officer in San Bernardino, California. In 1939, he became a Warden’s Assistant and Parole Officer for the U.S. Department of Justice at Terminal Island. In 1941, Smith became First Associate Superintendent of the new prison in Chino, California, where he was responsible for developing individualized treatment programs for minimum-security facilities. In 1944, Smith earned his Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. In that same year the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) recruited him to become a Team Director in Regensburg, Germany to locate free-living Displaced Persons and provide them with food, shelter, and medical care. In 1952, he became the Executive officer of the California Board of Corrections, where he was responsible for researching and implementing minimum jail standards, and providing plans for new construction or remodeling of jails. In 1958, he received his Doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. In 1960, he became a faculty member of the School of Criminology, University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley Dr. Smith taught probation, parole and correctional administration courses for both upper division and graduate students. In 1968, Dr. Smith became a faculty member of the Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He was primarily involved in developmental research and new training procedures for the U.S. Department of State programs for correctional administrators from foreign countries. In 1969, Dr. Smith was the First Deputy Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections. In 1977, he became a Criminal Justice Consultant traveling to Arizona, Washington, Europe, and Asia conducting courses and seminars on various aspects of the Criminal Justice system in the United States. In 1979, Dr Smith was a visiting Professor of Justice to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and at the U.S. Air Force Base, Sembach, West Germany.

Scope and Content of Collection

The Collection includes Academic research papers and theses; minutes from the California Board of Corrections; California legislative committee reports; pamphlets and articles on capital punishment; California Deerings Codes; information on county jails and detention facilities in California; European Criminology; inmate counseling; jail standards for California; reports on probation and parole in California; California Rules and Regulations; California Youth Authority; the First Asian Pacific Conference on Juvenile Delinquency; other printed material that are not directly related to California’s correctional system; and published books and text books that are related to the study of criminology. The collection also consists of materials from the UNRRA. These items are mainly guides and manuals on how to handle the problem of displaced persons in Germany after WWII. There are some items that do contain some personal information on displaced persons. Also in the collection are items that pertain to the Nuremberg Trials, which Dr. Smith had the privilege of attending. There is one page of handwritten notes by Dr. Smith that describes a session of the hearing and the physical appearance of some of the war criminals on trial.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

California Board of Corrections

Jails - Law and legislation

Prisons - Government policy - California

BOX 1

1.1: ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND THESES

- Smith, A. LaMont. Individual Treatment at the California Institution For Men . Master’s thesis, University of Southern California, 1944

- Plett, Nancy Page. A Study of the Visiting Procedures and Facilities in Adult Penal and Correctional Institutions in Twelve Western States . Honors Research Project, 1953

- Schapps, Myra R. High Walls and Open Gates . (1959)

- The United Prison Association of Massachusetts Correctional Research. What’s New in Parole; Personnel; Prison Education; Public Education; Prison Psychiatry and Psychology; and Prison Industries . (1955)

- Hawkinshire, Frank Bobby William, V. A History of the California State Department of Corrections, 1944-1959 . Master’s Thesis

- Narloch, Romey P. Criminal Homicide in California: A Cohort Study . Written for the Department of Justice. (1960)

- Bureau of Criminal Statistics Department of Justice, California. Adult Criminal Detention: A Study of Detentions in 5 California Counties . (1965)

- Rowe, M.J. Social Indices of Alameda County . (1965)

- Foreign Nationals in United States Penal Institution . Five page handout. (1972)

- Adams, Stuart Ph.D. Evaluative Research in Corrections: A Practical Guide . (1975)

- Lejins, Peter P. Criminal Justice in the United States: 1970-1975 . (1975)

- United Nations Social Defence Research Institute. Survey on Foreign Prisoners. n.d.

1.2: CALIFORNIA BOARD OF CORRECTIONS

- California Board of Corrections: Minute Meetings, 1949-1959. Four volumes.

BOX 2

2.1: CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATURE

- Senate Interim Committee. Penal and Correctional Institutions. (1943)

- Governor’s Committee on Penal Affairs. Folsom and San Quentin Prison Escapes.

- Governor’s Investigation Committee on Penal Affairs. Final Report. (1944)

- Assembly Interim Committee. County and City Jails: Progress Report. (1945)

- Senate Special Committee on Governmental Administration. Study on Prisons. (1953)

- Senate Special Committee on Governmental Administration. Building Needs of State Correctional Institutions . (1954)

- Kelps, Ralph N. Statutes Affecting Correctional Administration in California . (1959)

- Beaudry, Sylvia L. Report of the Senate Committee on Correctional Facilities . (1961)

- Assembly Interim Committee. Reports of Assembly Interim Committee on Criminal Procedure . (1963)

- Senate Fact Finding Committee on Judiciary Report and Recommendations. Post Conviction Procedures. (1963)

2.2: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

- Reverend Lester Kinsolving. A Clergyman’s View of Capital Punishment . American

- Playfair, Giles. Is The Death Penalty Necessary? The Atlantic, Volume 200, No.3 (Sept, 1957)

- Thomas, Trevor. This Life We Take: The Case Against the Death Penalty . (1959)

- Illinois Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment. The Death Penalty. (1959)

- Judge Evelle J. Younger. Capital Punishment: A Sharp Medicine. American Bar Association Journal, Volume 42, No.2 (Feb., 1959)

- Sellin, Thorsten. The Death Penalty . (1959)

- Senate Committee on Judicary. Senate Bill No.1 (which proposed to abolish the Death Penalty), (1960)

- Havmann, Ernest. Capital Punishment is not the Answer . Readers Digest (May, 1960)

- Smith, A LaMont. Justification for the Continuance of the Death Penalty in California (1961)

- Gibson, Evelyn and S. Klein. Murder: Studies in the Causes of Delinquency and the Treatment of Offenders . (1961)

- Ancel, Marc. Capital Punishment . Complied for the United Nations. (1961)

- Report of the Committee on Capital Punishment. (Oct 3, 1962)

- Smith, A. LaMont. The Case for Capital Punishment . (1966)

- Department of Economics and Special Affairs. Capital Punishment: Part 1. Report, 1960: Part II Developments, 1961-1965 . (1968)

- United Nations. Capital Punishment . (1968)

- Zeisel, Hans. Some Data on Juror Attitudes Towards Capital Punishment . (1968)

- Smith, A. LaMont and Robert M. Carter. Count Down for Death. (1969)

- Carter, Robert M and A. LaMont Smith. The Death Penalty in California: A Statistical and Composite Portrait . (1969)

- Mattick, Hans W. The Unexamined Death: An Analysis of Capital Punishment . (1972)

- United States Department of Justice. Capital Punishment, 1976. (1977)

2.3: COUNTY JAILS

- Adams, Stuart Ph.D. and Milton Burdman. The County Jails of California: An Evaluation. (1957)

- Adams, Stuart Ph.D. and Milton Burdman. The County Jails of California: An Evaluation. (1957). Selected pages reproduced for Criminology 104- A. A. LaMont Smith.

2.4: DEERINGS CALIFORNIA CODES

- State of California. Penal Code of California: Appendix . (1949)

- State of California. Penal Code of California . (1959)

2.5: DETENTION FACILITIES

- California Board of Corrections. Report and Recommendations on the Detention Facilities and Program: County of Santa Clara . (1954)

- California Board of Corrections. Report and Recommendations on the Detention Facilities and Program: City and County of San Francisco . (1955)

- California Board of Corrections. Detention Program for Adult Pre-Sentence Prisoners: Recommendations and Analysis . (1957)

- California Board of Corrections. Detention Program for Adult Prisoners: Report and Recommendations . (1958)

- California Board of Corrections. California Laws Pertaining to County and City Adult Detention Facilities . (1959)

- California Board of Corrections. Adult Detention Facilities and Treatment Program for Kings County . (1960)

- California Board of Corrections. Adult Detention Facilities and Treatment Program for Marin County (1960)

2.6: EUROPEAN CRIMINOLOGY

- Vermes, Miklos. Some Questions of Principle and Methodology in Criminological Research . (1963)

- Information on the Legal Systems and State Organizations of the Hungarian Peoples Republic, Budapest. (1964)

- Hungarian Lawyer’s Association. Hungarian Law Review, No.1 (1964)

- Hungarian Lawyer’s Association. Hungarian Law Review, No.2 (1965)

- Hungarian Lawyer’s Association. Hungarian Law Review , No.1 (1966)

- International Prisoners Aid Association. European Cooperation in the International Probation . (1977)

BOX 3

3.1: INMATE COUNSELING

- The American Prison Association. The Inmates Relationship With Persons Form The Outside the Adult Correction Institution (1950-1953)

- Fenton, Norman Ph.D. An Introduction to Group Counseling in Prison . (1955)

- Fenton, Norman Ph.D. Que Sera Su Vida? (What Will Our Life Be?) (1957)

- Fenton, Norman Ph.D. What Will Your Life Be? (1957)

- Fenton, Norman Ph.D. A Brief Historical Account of Group Counseling in the Prisons of California . (1957)

- Fenton, Norman Ph.D. Treatment in Prison: How the Family Can Help. (1958)

- Fenton, Norman Ph.D. The Prisoner’s Family: A Study of Family Counseling In an Adult Correctional System . (1959)

- The Northern California Service League. The County Jail Inmate as a Subject for Rehabilitation . (1964)

- Lohse, Ben and Edgar Smith. Correctional Review. (1965)

3.2: MINIMUM JAIL STANDARDS

- California State Board of Corrections. Minimum Jail Standards for California (1946)

- California State Board of Corrections. Minimum Jail Standard: Including Standards for Feeding, Clothing and Bedding . (1952)

- California State Board of Corrections. Minimum Jail Standards. (1963)

3.3: PAROLE AND PROBATION

- United States Department of Justice. Attorney General’s Survey of Release Procedures. Vol. 1-Vol. 5. (1939)

- California State Board of Corrections. California Male Prisoners Released on Parole: 1946-1949 . (1949)

- California State Board of Corrections. A Study of the County Jails of California. (1949)

- California State Board of Corrections. Final Report of the Special Crime Study Commission on Adult Correction and Release Procedure . (1949)

- State of California Adult Authority. Report of Progress: Special Intensive Parole Unit . (1955)

- California State Board of Corrections. Second Interim Report of Special Study On Correctional Facilities and Services: Probation, Jails, and Parole . (1957)

- California Department of Corrections. Parole: Philosophy, Policies, and Program. (1961)

- Davis, George F. A Study of Adult Probation Violation Rates By Means of the Cohort Approach . (1963)

- California State Board of Corrections. Probation Supervision and Training. (1964)

- Assembly Committee on Criminal Procedure. Probation and Parole: Protection for Society. (1965)

- Lohman, Joseph D. and Albert Wahl. Report No. One.- No. Six. (April 1965-April 1966)

BOX 4

4.1: PAROLE AND PROBATION (cont)

- Lohman, Joseph D and Albert Wahl. Report No. Seven- No. Thirteen (September 1966-Sept. 1967)

- Spangler, Joseph. Parole in the West. 1870-1970-1980: Past, Present, Future . (1970)

- Banks, J. Evaluation of Intense Special Probation Projects . (1977)

4.2: RULES AND REGULATIONS

- State of California. Rules and Regulations of the Director of Corrections and of the Wardens and Superintendents of the California State Prisons . (1954)

- State of California. Rules and Regulations of the Director of Corrections . (1974)

4.3: YOUTH AUTHORITY

- The American Law Institute. Youth Correction Authority Act.

- California Department of the Youth Authority. Standards for Juvenile Hall. (1958)

- State of California. Recommendations for changes in California Juvenile Court Law .

- Galvin, John J. Institutional Treatment of Younger Offenders . (1961)

- California State Board of Corrections. Inquiries Concerning Kinds of Treatment for Kinds of Delinquents . (1961)

4.4: OTHER

- Pacific Branch United States Disciplinary Barracks, Alcatraz, California. Post Regulations. (1932)

- Comrey, A.L., J.M. Pfiffner and H.P. Beem. Studies in Organizational Effectiveness in the U.S. Forest Survey . (1951)

- Neiswagner, William A., Et al. Laboratory Manual for Elementary Statistical Methods as Applied to Business and Economic Data . (1951)

- California State Board of Corrections. Narcotics and Hypnotics in California. (1953)

- Olson, Bruce. Pay as You Go Penology Program. Text Digest . (1960)

- Watson, Nelson A. ed. Police and the Changing Community: Selected Readings . (1965)

- Judicial Council of California. First Sentencing Institute for Superior Court Judges . (1965)

- Richmond, Mark S. Ed. New Roles for Jails: Guidelines for Planning . (1969)

- Richmond, Mark S. Ed. Classification for Jail Prisoners. (1971)

- Arizona Federal Detention Center: Rights and Responsibilities . (1972)

- Capital University Law Review. A Journal of Corrections and Institutional Control . (1973)

- United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. (1989)

4.5: THE FIRST ASIAN-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY (Nov. 15- Dec. 1, 1979)

-Brochures

-Catalog

-Program

-Booklets

-Papers and Essays

- Yong-Wook, Kim. Recent Juvenile Delinquency and Family Norm in Korea .

- Dr. Kwang-Kuo Hwang. T he Chinese Teenagers’ Perception of Parental Child- Rearing Practice and Their Personal and Social Adjustment .

- Der-Huey Yu. S everal Common Problems in Helping Pre-Delinquent Adolescents . (PDAs)

- Tsai, Te-hiu. A Comparable Research on the Effects of Institutional Treatment and Community-Based Treatment on Juvenile Delinquents .

- Cox, Steve M, Ph.D. Modernization and the Prevention and Control of Delinquency: A Look at the Case of Taiwan .

- Dr. Hsing-tang Lee. Sub-cultural Theory and Juvenile Delinquency.

- Dr. Kuo-shu-Yang. A Classificatory-Factorial Study of Problem Behavior in Chinese Young Adolescents .

- Chow, Chen-ou, Ph.D. Economic Development and Efforts of Prevention and Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency in the Republic of China .

- Chapman, Grant, M.P. The Present Situation Concerning Juvenile Delinquency in Australia .

- Fujimoto, Tetsuya, Ph.D. The Present Stages of Juvenile Delinquency in Japan.

- Hem, Chen. Essential Measures for Prevention and Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency .

- Hong, Sung Wook. Closing Address.

- Fox, Vernon. New Trends in the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency: Juvenile Delinquency in Asian-Pacific Countries .

- Chu, Hwei-sen. Congratulatory Message.

- Nakata, Osamu, Toshifumi Ishii, and Akria Yamagami. The Statistic and Psychiatric Studies on Juvenile Delinquency in Japan .

- Graphs and Tables (e.g. Total number of penal code crimes, female gambling, ect.)

- Juvenile Delinquency in Japan Today .

- Dr. Thomas Yang-Chih Kao. Reformatory Education for Juvenile Delinquents in Taiwan, Republic of China .

BOX 5

5.1: UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITAION AGENCY (UNRRA) Publications

- UNRRA. Organization Aims Program (1944)

- Supreme Head Quarter Allied Expeditionary Force. Displaced Persons Registration Instructions. (June 1944)

- Supreme Head Quarter Allied Expeditionary Force. Guide to the Care of Displaced Persons in Germany. (1945)

- UNRRA. Fifty Facts about UNRRA. (1945)

- UNRRA of the Month. (July 1945, Sept.1945)

- UNRRA of the Month. (March 1946)

- The American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service. The Problem of Displaced Persons. (1946)

- Barton, Betty. The Problem of 12 Million German Refuges in Today’s Germany. (1949)

- United Nations. International Training Courses in Social Defense. Asia and Far East Institute. (1965)

- United Nations. Your United Nations: The Official Guide Book. (1965) - United Nations. Refugees: The United Nations and Refugees. 1945-1985. (1985)

5.2: UNRRA

- German Work Front Registration Book. (1935)

- American Expeditionary Force. Displaced Persons Index Card

- American Expeditionary Force. Assembly Center Registration Card

- American Expeditionary Force. Displaced Persons Registration Record

- Siegeszug Jurch Frankreich. German Pamphlet. (1940)

- Memo From Mr. A. LaMont Smith to Mr. Samuel Herman. UNRRA Field Supervisor. (28 August 1945)

- U.S. Educators Report School Impasse in Reich. October 15, 1946. Newspaper article. Newspaper not identified. Might be a Los Angeles Paper. On the reverse side it mentions the St. Vibiana’s Cathedral, which is located in Los Angeles.

- A. LaMont Smith. One page of hand written notes on a female Bulgarian refugee. n.d.

5.3: UNRRA

- YMCA, San Francisco. Report from Germany. (1946)

- A. LaMont Smith. After Twenty Years: Memories of Dark Days. (1956)

- Regensburger Stadanzeiger. Freundschaftliche Zusammenarbeit Blieb Unvergessen . Dr. A. LaMont Smith receives an award from the Germans. August 6, 1965.

5.4: NUREMBERG TRIALS

- Nuremberg Trials. War Crime Trials. (November 20 1945)

- International Military Tribune No. 1 n.d.

- Office of the United States Chief Counsel Interrogation Division. Biography Report: Werner Kirchert. (October 30 1945)

- A. LaMont Smith. One page of notes from the Nuremberg Trials. (January 28 1946)

- Two sheet of Stationary from the Office of Chief Counsel Nuremberg Trials

- Dreyer, Peter H. Weekly Information Bulletin: Nuremberg Trials. (1947)

- Singer, Joseph H. San Francisco Examiner. Care if Six Top Nazis in Prison Costly to United States. (1957)

- UNRRA Poster.

- German newspaper. Volkischer Beobachter . Munchen, Montag, (Monday) 19 Juni (June) 1944

BOX 6

6.1: PUBLISHED BOOKS & TEXTBOOKS

- Barnes, Harry Elmer. The Repression of Crime . (1926)

- Chamberlin, Rudolph W. There is No Truce: A Life of Thomas Mott Osborne . (1936)

- Bryson, Lyman. Ed. Facing the Future’s Risks: Studies Toward Predicting The Unforeseen . (1952)

- Chessman, Caryl. Cell 2455 Death Row . (1954)

- Horoszowski, Pawel. Ph.D. Kryminologia: Wybrane Zadadnienia. (1958)

- Wolfgang, Marvin E, Leonard Savitz and Norman Johnston. The Sociology of Crime and Delinquency . (1962)

- Wolfgang, Marvin E, Leonard Savitz and Norman Johnston. The Sociology of Punishment and Correction . (1962)

- Matza, David. Delinquency and Drift . (1964)

- Quebec Commission of Enquiry. Crime, Justice, and Society. (1968-1969)