3. What is meant by the minimum standard of living? Make an estimate of what it costs to maintain this minimum standard in your own community at the present time.
4. To what extent are overcrowding and unsanitary conditions the cause of poverty and to what extent are they the effect?
5. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of private poor relief organizations? In what way may the disadvantages be overcome?
6. In what ways are poverty and a poor educational system related?
7. Why is it desirable to separate the different types of mental defectives?
8. What is the difference between crimes and torts? Which of the following are crimes and which are not: telling a falsehood; blasphemy; throwing rubbish in the streets; refusing to obey the orders of a policeman; building a house on another man’s land; ringing in a false alarm; telling false stories about a neighbor; playing ball on Sunday? Can you make a classification of crimes apart from that given in the text?
9. Place the causes of crime in what seems to you to be their order of importance. Compare this with the answer to Question 2.
10. Explain the difference between indeterminate sentence, parole, and probation.
11. Make a list of prison reforms which meet your approval. What could you do, as a citizen, to secure the adoption of these reforms.
12. Why are juvenile courts desirable? What disposition do they make of cases which come before them? What are the duties of a probation officer?