NO CRIMINAL TYPE
CRIME LARGELY DUE TO BAD SOCIAL CONDITIONS LORD OXFORD’S VIEW. Australian and N.Z Cable Association. LONDON, August 5. The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, addressing the International Prison Congress, expressed the opinion that punishment should blend retribution, prevention, and reformation. The Court of Criminal Appeal had made wrongful conviction practically , impossible, but much had to be. done in the direction of securing ,uniformity of sentences. The' British prison commissioners, after elaborate inquiry, he said, came to the conclusion that there was no anthropological criminal type, and that there were jio physical, mental, or moral ( conditions peculiar to the inmates of prisons. Crime was largely the outcome of bad social conditions, unless it was the spasmodic result of imbulse or passion. . The prime object of the prison administration was to prevent crime becoming habitual, and this was the proof of its success or non-cuecess. The congress later discussed a resolution declaring that a special system Of. preventive detention for habitual criminals was desirable for the protection of sqciety. • r v
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12210, 7 August 1925, Page 10
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172NO CRIMINAL TYPE New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12210, 7 August 1925, Page 10
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