Sentences for violence
Sir, — The recent comments by the Solicitor-Gen-eral, Mr Savage, urging the courts to impose harsher sentences on violent offenders, are ill-judged and offer little encouragement to those in the community attempting the rehabilitation of such offenders. Mr Savage is helping to perpetuate the mvth that harsh sentences are a deterrent to violent offenders and that such sentences are likely to have some form of rehabilitative effect. Research and experience both indicate the contrary. While I share the concern of many that the community must be protected from violent offenders, longer sentences simply delav the problem and afford no solution in themselves. — Yours, etc.. GLENN NEWMAN. December 19, 197”.
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