Show A BAD RECORD IN punishment in a recent survey made in the most important section of a middle we n ato tet it was lound found that a pei deion on li arged with crime crim e risks butone chance in 30 ol of being pupils punished ed ot of felony cases tried in a great american city in 1926 but 2449 of bf the defendants were found guilty and a great many ot of these were released on parole or appeals or otherwise escaped prison these are not isolated examples but more or less the general thing throughout the united states inescapable difficulties beset the legislator or crime reformer who attempts to make punishment for the criminal certain A mass of technicalities cali calit ties les surrounds and helps to protect the defendant in criminal cases often a mawkish sentiment centime nt is aroused among a certain element that tries to make it a martyr oi of the most hardened wrongdoer and after conviction vic tion reprieves commutations of sentences and paroles often turn the unrelenting criminals out into society again to continue their depredations dat ions I 1 crime suppression must be preceded by law enforcement rather than by more laws and red tape which invite more technical lawbreaking law breaking |