Report of the Departmental Committee on the Treatment of Young Offenders.

  • Great Britain. Committee on the Treatment of Young Offenders.
Date:
1927
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Credit: Report of the Departmental Committee on the Treatment of Young Offenders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    supervision, under the control of a licence, to follow discharge. Section 1 (4) of the Act is as follows :— ‘ (1) Where a person is convicted on indictment of an offence for which he is hable to be sentenced to penal servitude or imprisonment and it appears to the court (a) that the person is not less than sixteen nor more than twenty-one years of age; and (b) that, by reason of his criminal habits or ten- © dencies, or association with persons of bad character, it is expedient that he should be subject to detention for such term and under such instruction and discipline as appears most conducive to his reformation and the repression of crime ; it shall be lawful for the court; in leu of passing a eee: of penal servitude ‘or-imprisonment, to pass a sentence of detention under penal discipline in a Borstal Institution for a term of not less than two years* nor more than three years : Provided ae before passing such a sentence, the court shall consider any report or representations which may be made to it by or on behalf of the Prison Commissioners as to the suitabihty of the case for treatment in a Borstal Institution and shall be. satisfied that the character, state of health, and mental condition of the offender, and the other circumstances. of the case, are such that the offender is likely to profit by such imstruction and discipline as afore- said. Borstal detention could thus be ad only for persons who were convicted on indictment: of offences for which they were liable to penal servitude or imprisonment. The only power of committal possessed by courts of summary jurisdiction was in the case of boys or girls in reformatory schools who were convicted of committing a breach of the rules of the school, or of absconding. Additional powers, however, were given to - eourts of summary jurisdiction by section 10 of the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, sub-sections.(1) and (2), which > are as follows :— } (1) Where a person is summarily convicted of any offence for which the court has power to impose a sentence of imprisonment for one month or upwards without the ote of « fine, and (a) it appears to the court that the offender is not less than sixteen nor more than twenty-one yeare of age; and (b) it is proved that the offender has previously been convicted of any oifence or, that having been previously discharged on probation, he failed to observe a con- dition of his recognizance; and. : + As amended by the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, sectigqn 1]. | ss