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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    backward courts to action, to effect some arrangement whereby cases could be trans- ferred from one locality to another, when that course was advisable; to publish annually a list giving the name and address of every probation officer appointed under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1907, and to supply a copy to each probation officer, magistrates’ clerk, and clerk of quarter sessions and assize ; to supply a guide to magistrates and probation officers giving the text of statutes immediately affecting probation, with the necessary memoranda and explanations, and a copy of the Home Office Probation Rules ; to issue an annual report ; to have supreme over- sight over the work of probation officers ; to appoint one or more travelling supervisors of probation work, and to publish their reports.1 1 Since the above was written, the Home Office has created a special department to deal with questions relating to children, including juvenile probation and children’s courts : what we now require is a similar department for adult probation—and the scope of both widening on the lines set out above.
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