The probation system / by Cecil Leeson.

  • Cecil Leeson
Date:
1914
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Credit: The probation system / by Cecil Leeson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE The following chapters do not pretend to cover the probation system completely. They are chiefly an attempt to deal with the raw materials, as it were, of which the system is composed—the choice of offenders suitable for probation, the selection of pro- bation officers, the treatment of offenders who violate the conditions of their release, and so on. By and by, probation will no doubt develop a technique of its own ; for the present, however, while the system is itself still on probation, one can perhaps serve it best by paying chief attention to these its elements. The materials on which these chapters are based were gathered partly from my own practical experience of probation work, and partly from a two-years’ study of pro- bation systems abroad. It will be seen that American probation figures rather promi- nently. This is because probation is more mature in America than elsewhere ; for, while it is true that probation of offenders in England dates back much farther than the passing of the Probation of Offenders Bill
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