Probation, Parole, and Legal Rules of Guilt
1935; Northwestern University Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1136273
ISSN2160-0015
Autores Tópico(s)Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
ResumoA system of medical cience in which the sole or major mode of treatment of human ills consisted of the amputation of the diseased member of the patient's body would not be tolerated in our present state of civilization nor was it ever the rule.Oddly enough our traditional major method of social therapeutics for handling the disorders of conduct called crime has involved the amputation of the diseased member-the criminal-from the body of society by execution or incarceration.Medical science is constantly improving its methods for curing physical and mental ills.Penal science, as manifest in criminal law, is slower to avail itself of more modem and intelligent methods for treating its disordered members, the criminals.Less rigorous curative methods than amputation are available both to the medical profession and the criminal law enforcers.The latter group has available for curing society's disordered members the devices of probation and parole, i. e., the conditional liberation of convicted crim- inals pending good behavior and under proper supervision.$The scientific application of these devices comprehends a careful personal and subjective investigation of the offender's aptness for this mode of treatment and a supervision of his activities during the
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