📚 Reformatories

Books with reformatories on their catalogue record, first published between 1846 and 2009, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject reformatories in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,294 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	THE CHICAGO SCHOOL CRIMINOLOGY Volume 4	Clifford Robe Shaw	1930	19
	Sleepers	Lorenzo Carcaterra	1995	14
	Wayward youth	August Aichhorn	1935	13
	The Defences of the Weak	Thomas Mathiesen	1965	9
	Prisons and borstals	Home Office	1945	8
	Reformatory education	Henry Barnard	1857	7
	Wayward youth	August Aichhorn	1935	7
	Criminology and penology	John Lewis Gillin	1926	6
	Reformatory schools	Mary Carpenter	1968	6
	Ordinamento penitenziario e misure alternative alla detenzione	Giuseppe Di Gennaro	1976	5
	Society's Misfits	Madeleine Z. Doty	1916	4
	Prison reform	Corinne Bacon	1917	4
	Canadian penal institutions	C. W. Topping	1929	4
	Annie's Girl	Maureen Coppinger	2009	4
	Report on the prisons and reformatories of the United States and Canada	E. C. Wines	1867	3
	Les convulsions de Paris	Maxime Du Camp	1879	3
	Making citizens	M. M. Simmons	1945	3
	Youth within walls	Bertram M. Beck	1950	3
	Report on the system and arrangements of "La colonie agricole" at Mettray	Sydney Turner	1846	2
	Reformatory schools	Mary Carpenter	1851	2
	Address on the state reform school	Thomas March Clark	1854	2
	Juvenile criminals	Edwin Wright	1865	2
	Technologic training in reform schools	William Pryor Letchworth	1884	2
	Prison reform	Unknown author	1889	2
	Mémoires concernant le fonctionnement des lois qui régissent les écoles de réforme et d'industrie	Bernard Bernier	1893	2
	The Dominion government and prison reform	Prisoners' Aid Association of Canada	1894	2
	Ispravitelʹno-vospitatelʹnye instituty v Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki︠e︡	A. A. Piontkovskīĭ	1897	2
	Investigation of Charities and Reformatory Institutions in D.C	United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee To Investigate the Charities and Reformatory Institutions in the Distric	1897	2
	The reformatory system in the United States	International penal and prison commission	1900	2
	Administration and educational work of American juvenile reform schools	David Snedden	1907	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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