JUVENILE CRIME
MASS CASTIGATION PLAN.,. London, Sept, 23. One in—all in, is the principle of. the Radcliffe magistrates. They ordered the fathers of 11 boys who had stolen apples to attend the court and thrash ..their sons. ~ Some of the fathers refused to do this, and the mass castigation was cancelled, Tho magistrates subsequently explained that they had intended the thrashing io be voluntary. “Juvenile crime has become a ? eI X grave matter, and the treatment o a serious problem,” is how ‘he . the Radcliffe magistrates explains the “few of the parents attended to whip the boys in tW courtyard. One,. A former bluejacket, announced: I Rhall give him what I got in the Navy—the! rope's end-” '
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1929, Page 6
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117JUVENILE CRIME Taranaki Daily News, 7 October 1929, Page 6
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