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- Title
THE CONTROL OF CRIME.
- Authors
Woods, Arthur
- Abstract
The article presents information about control of crime. People are likely to jump to the conclusion that the control of crime rests solely with the police force. This is not the whole truth. The police force may do excellent work, and yet be hard put to it to control crime. If a man is arrested for burglary in the first degree, and one have the evidence to convict him of burglary in the first degree, the case should be fought through on those lines. He should be given the penalty prescribed by law for the offense of burglary in the first degree. Few persons realize how much this thing is talked about among thieves, and it tends to make monkeys of the police. If the machinery of law enforcement is strong, if the criminal suffers as the public has decreed he shall suffer, the society shall have fewer criminals. The size of the force should not be left to chance. A few years ago there was one-post in this city twenty miles long. There were several other posts so far removed from station houses that a policeman could just about get to them when he had to turn around and go back.
- Subjects
CRIME prevention; POLICE; BURGLARY; PRISONS; CRIMINALS; CRIMINAL justice system
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p687
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1132647