CHAPTER VII THE PREVENTION OF CRIMES ACT (1908)

The Borstal experiment--Provisions for the "reformation of young offenders"--Is any diminution in the numbers of police expected?--Preventive detention--The implied confession that penal servitude does not reform and the insistence on it as a preliminary to reform--The prisoner detained at the discretion of the prison officials--The powers of the Secretary of State--The change under the statute--The necessary ignorance of the Secretary of State by reason of his other duties--The "committees"--The habits to be taught--The teaching of trades--The ignorance of trades on the part of those who design to teach them-- The difficulty of teaching professions in institutions less than that of teaching trades--The vice of obedience taught--Intelligent co-operation and senseless subordination--The military man in the industrial community 284-303