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Show Officials Discuss Curbs on Criminal , X ,. ' INTENT AS MEANS OF CURT AILING CRIME ARE DELINEATED ' Crowd listens lo speakers at anticrime conference i'S. M & MEET DEBATES 1 PAROLESYSTEM Benefits and Faults Set Forth The public conception of the probation pro-bation and parole system turning criminals back on society is wrong, Judge Herbert M. Schiller of the Third district court said Friday at an anticrime conference. Judge Schiller was one of the main speakers at the conference in the Newhouse hotel, called by the state boards of correction and pardons par-dons and the Utah Peace Officers' a-vociation. The conference dealt largely with the probation and parole system. Judge Schiller represented the probation and parole system as being be-ing the modern method of dealing with criminals. "The old fashioned idea that crime was adequately dealt with after the criminal was put behind bars does not any longer obtain." Judge Schiller Schil-ler ssid. "The probation and parole method represents an advancement in the dealing with this problem. 'The public's idea that probation or parole was merely turning back upon society the perpetrator of criminal deeds Is entirely wrong. Actually society is being given a person who might become a cooperative cooper-ative member, and the public must JUDICIAL, EXECUTIVE BRANCHES MEET Judge A. W. Turner, Provo, left; Policeman R. T. Andrews be educated to accept that idea. Judge Schiller listed seven ways how the probation and parole sys-trm sys-trm benefits society and the individual: indi-vidual: 1. It protects society. 2. It permits reformation of ths criminal. 3. It gives the reformed criminal crim-inal hope. 4. It saves the young offender from a lifelong stigms. 5. It deters crime, opening the way to community living. . It is economical for society, not being so costly as Incarceration. Incarcera-tion. 7. It permits the Individual to earn money. Justice D. W. Moffat of the state supreme court told of advances in selection of candidates for probation proba-tion and parole, and Attorney General Gen-eral Joseph Chez told of progress among states In joint handling of the criminal problem. Greetings were -brought by Governor Gover-nor Henry H. Blood. Samuel W. Stewart, chairman of the state board or corrections, was in charge. About 150 peace officers from all parts of Utah attended. Directors of the Utsh Peace Officers' association met at 4:30 p. m. |