The Criminal the Community by James Devon

Author:James Devon [Devon, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Barnesnoble:
Publisher: Lost Leaf Publications
Published: 2013-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

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PART III

THE TREATMENT OF THE CRIMINAL

CHAPTER I

THE MACHINERY OF THE LAW

The police and their duties—Divided control—Need for knowledge of local peculiarities—The fear of “corruption”—The police cell—Cleanliness and discomfort—Insufficient provision of diet, etc.—The casualty surgeon—The police court—The untrained magistrate—The assessor—Pleas of “guilty”—Case—Apathy of the public—Agents for the Poor—The prison van—The sheriff court—The procurator-fiscal—Procedure in the higher courts—The Scottish jury.

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