TREATMENT FOR CRIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1925, Page 7

TREATMENT FOR CRIME.

NO RECOGNISABLE TYPE. KINDER METHODS. LONDON, August 0. The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, in an address at the Prison Congress, ex* pressed the opinion that punishment should be a blend of retribution, prevention and reformation. The Court of Criminal appeal made a wrongful conviction practically impossible, but much could be done in the direction of securing uniformity of sentences. The British Prison Commissioner, after an elaborate inquiry, had come to the conclusion that there was no anthropological criminal tyne. There Were no physical, mental nor moral conditions peculiar to the inmates of prisons. Crime wan largely the outcome of bad social conditions, unless it was spasmodic, as a result of Impulse or passion. The prime object of the ndministration was to prevent crime from becoming habitual. This was the proof of success or non-succe«s. The congress subsequently discussed a motion to the effect that a special system of preventive detention for habitual criminals wag desirable for the protection of society.— (ReUter.)