YOUNG OFFENDERS.
• /By air Ac!:" of tuW^last I/Cgislaturc of the State of New York, an independent court was established fqr the trial of children. The object! of tills _nc;w court, is ;iot to secure conviction,", biit rather to .send boys to- institutions. The underlying principle is r.o to manage these trials that imprisonment will not, if posible, follow x first offence, but that the first offence may be made such a lesson that it will be the last. Though a' score of ciLics m America have iuvenile courts, no oilier ha» tji entire building > {Ind large,' equipment of its own and also~£rijds .Sessions every week day througno'i|£':..f lip , year excepting ]iolidays. Tho Session ;. opened on Tuesday, September? 1 ' 2, with'inors than v? 0 children ready ' {fit 'trial ; >llicse 'itlle ! culprits aro detained' .overnight, in the rooms of tho Sociotj for the Prevention of- Cruelty , to Children when their arrest I occurs out of court hours. . Tho prisoners •ire not harried or intimidated, hut are treated with great kindness and firannesss, 1 ,<w<l the frequent resujfc is the truthful '.recital of tlioir misdemeanours. In various ways the proceedings of this. court aro entirely novel,' and' every effort is Wing made to effect the result sought after. — ''Lancet." ,
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10820, 10 December 1902, Page 2
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