This collection consists of the "Report[s] of Fifth Annual Training Institute for Probation, Parole and Institutional Staff" held at the University of California, Berkeley, for the years 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, and 1959. There is also a copy of the "Lectures of the Fourteenth Annual Training Institute for Probation, Parole and Institutional Staff" held at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962. The University of California, Berkeley, Schools of Social Welfare and Criminology sponsored the annual institutes, in cooperation with such California state agencies as the California Youth Authority and with such private organizations as the California State Juvenile Officers Association. Some copies are hardbound, others are not. The copy of the "Lectures" bears the address label of Gertrude Wilson, head of Social Welfare Extension, University of California, Berkeley, and participant in these conferences.