YOUTHFUL CRIME
MAKING PENALTY SEVERE Sharp comment on the prevalence of crime by youths was made by Mr. Justice Callan in Auckland when dealing with 11 prisoners who appeared before him for sentence. Touching on the question of probation for youthful offenders, His Honour said llie court had to consider the effect on the public of the sentences passed, particularly the effect on those who had so little conscience that, they had to be restrained from crime by fear. “The position in this district is that the court has already had to announce its alarm at the amount of rank dishonesty and complete carelessness with regard to the rights of property shown in the oiTences committed, quite unnecessarily, by adolescents and still very young men." said His Honour. A warning had been given only a short time ago by the court and now ho found again several eases of breaking and entering by adolescents. In that state of things the duty of the court was such that it was going to be very difficult for anybody to get.probation. He was quite aware of the responsibility the court had in finally making anyone a criminal, but something had to be done to teach those people.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19420420.2.81
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20744, 20 April 1942, Page 5
Word Count
204YOUTHFUL CRIME Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20744, 20 April 1942, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in