REALITIES IN CRIME
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —The abolition of flogging (which was only ordered in cases of an especially brutal nature) and of capital punishment is resulting in a harvest of particularly brutal crimes, the victims of which are innocent children, girls, and women whose years even are no protection. The politicians who have instituted this favoured treatment of- hardened and brutal criminals are guided by sentimentality that takes no account of the horrible realities. Women's organisations—severally—have frequently expressed their indignation at the removal of what Judges and Magistrates, after years of experience, have publicly declared to be the only deterrents of certain of the more brutal forms of crime. It is time these organisations united in vigorous public action for the protection of women and children.—l am, etc.,
' N. A. R. BARRER. Masterton, October 29, 1942.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 106, 31 October 1942, Page 6
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