BREAKING & ENTERING
OFFENCES BY YOUTHS JUDGE SUGGESTS REVISION OF LAW. PROBATION AN INSUFFICIENT DETERRENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 29. "I think the time is approaching, il 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, after dealing with four prisoners who had pleaded guilty to breaking, entering and theft. Their ages ranged from 23 to 20. “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’ Probation Act,” said his Honour, “but it is really questionable whether, In the general interests of the public, particularly of the adolescent part, a 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 and entering, without punishment. Such an impression, if it gets abroad, will simply result in the creation of criminals.”
A knowledge that punishment would follow on crime might deter young men on the brink, his Honour observed, where probation would not be a sufficient deterrent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1939, Page 2
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