JUDGE OF JUSTICE
" I do not think that sentences today are too severe," said Mr Justice McCardie, at a meeting of the Royal Society for the Assistance of Discharged Prisoners.» "A good deal of the increase of crime is due to the persistent criminal. I have records that would astonish many, of men bound over for the first offence, getting six months for the fifth, and a similar sentence for the tenth offence. The result is that men get to believe that crime is worth while, and society gets no protection. I say publicly that a great deal of injury is done by giving a man who has committed his tenth offence of house-breaking no greater punishment than that given to the man who has committed his second or third offence. Stern though I should be if the interests of society demanded it, I have never lost—and I do not believe any judge will ever lose—faith in the possibility of hu- | man nature."
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3182, 26 May 1932, Page 2
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