Word: penal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ascendant curve of crimes and misdemeanors, the inadequacy of American legislative procedure and, as a comparatively recent development, the numerous prison breaks during the past months, have focussed national attention on the penal system of the United States. The prevalent opinion that there is something manifestly hampering the prevention and correction of crime has given rise to several investigations by political bodies. Charges and counter-charges fill the air but as yet the actual attempt at reform remains at an impasse...
...book form, his attitude is more that of the psychiatrist than of the investigator of the chamber-room. Using the scientific method of induction he has sifted a huge mass of material into eight specific conclusions, all of them at variance with the accepted code of procedure in penal institutions...
...CRIMINAL CODE-Arthur Byron makes eloquent a penal tragedy...
...York State gained national attention and considerable imitation when it first led out stiffly against Crime with its famed Baumes Laws. These severe penal statutes overcrowded the state's prisons with life-term felons, helped breed the fierce despair among herded inmates which fired last year's deadly riots at Auburn and Dannemora (TIME...
...hired champion who defends his client right or wrong-such is the usual concept of a lawyer. Far different was the concept set up in Rome last week by Signor Alfredo Rocco, reverberant-voiced Minister of Justice, drafter of the new Italian Penal Code (TIME...