Author: Thomas Barwick Lloyd Baker

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780266995258

Excerpt from The Habitual Criminals Bill, and Reformatories for Adults In the same clause occurs the same measure as in the previous, viz., that the offender after such third conviction if found under circumstances of suspicion, may be sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment by two Justices or a Stipendiary Magistrate. As I have before said, I do not like throwing the responsibility of a 12 months' sentence upon a Court of hardly sufficient weight to bear it. And here I think another alteration is needful. On the cumulative principle, successive punishments ought to increase in severity, and when a man has had seven years penal servitude, it seems useless to return him to the common Gaol. I should like therefore to add that he may be committed on summary conviction before two Justices to imprisonment not exceeding three months or before Quarter Sessions or Assizes, to penal servitude not exceeding seven years. Before leaving this Clause you must pardon my again saying that I believe it will turn out to be the most important measure for the Repression of Habitual crime that has ever been passed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.