CRIMES BY YOUTHS
BREAKING AND ENTERING LIMITATIONS OF PROBATION (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday. “ i think the time is approaching, if it has not already been reached, when this type of offence by youths will have to be more severely dealt with in the Courts," said Mr Justice Reed, in the Supreme Court to-day after dealing with four prisoners who pleaded guilty to charges of breaking, entering and theft. Their ages ranged from 20 to 2:i. “ No doubt it is in the interests of the individual offender that he can be kept away from the contamination of prisoners by the use of the Offenders' Probalion Act.” continued the judge. ” lint it is really questionable whether in the general interests of the public, particularly of the adolescent, Ihc general impression should be created that a young man can safely indulge at least once in what appears to be the attractive crime of breaking ami entering without punishment. Such an impression, if it gets abroad, will simply result in the creation of cri-mi- ! nals.” Knowledge that punishment would follow crime might deter young men on the brink of crime, where probation would not be a sufficient deterrent, the judge added.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20844, 30 June 1939, Page 10
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198CRIMES BY YOUTHS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20844, 30 June 1939, Page 10
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