No Vests For Vandals
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 28. Young offenders were out in the open for the public to see when they did the community or social service work the Court had imposed on them, the Secretary of Justice (Dr. J. L. Robson) said today. He did not think there was any need to identify them.
There certainly was no proposal for a “vandal
vest” as used in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Robson said.
Young vandals or other youths convicted of similar crimes in New Zealand are made to work on some community project such as doing work for charitable organisations, as sentence for their crimes.
They do the work in their spare time and are made to live in at a hostel.
The “vandal vest”—a shirt of bright orange with the words “I am a Vandal” printed on the back in bold letters—is the idea of Judge Kenneth Turner, of Memphis. His idea is that young vandals should be submitted to public ridicule in much the same way as the criminals of old were put in stocks.
The young offenders have to wear the vesta while working in public.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30945, 29 December 1965, Page 3
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