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THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, Interim Commission, is coöperating in a United Nations study for the prevention of crime. The purpose of the study is to provide a plan for international action. To enable the Social Commission to initiate its program with a minimum of delay, it is intended that the study should be based mainly on the collection and analysis of existing

opinion and research, rather than on original scientific inquiries. Two members of the UN Secretariat, Department of Social Affairs, taking part in this study are Adolph Delierneux, Belgian sociologist, assistant director of the Department's Social Activities Division and Benedict S. Alper, American criminologist. Dr. Leon Radzinowicz, Director of Criminal Research at Cambridge University, England, is the fourth member of the group. Dr. Manfred S. Guttmacher, chief medical officer of the medical service of the Baltimore Supreme Bench, has been appointed consultant psychiatrist. He will take part in planning the study, but his specific work as representative will relate to heredity as a factor in the causation of crime; prevention of crime by giving attention to the early social adaption of children; psychiatric factors in the genesis of early criminal careers; psychiatric methods for the treatment of juvenile and adolescent offenders; psychiatric care for the treatment of adults in penal institutions.