Criminal sociology / by Enrico Ferri.

  • Ferri, Enrico, 1856-1929.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Criminal sociology / by Enrico Ferri. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Compulsory work without imprisonment may be admitted, not as a main punishment, but as a mode of enforcing strict reparation of damage, which I stili believe to be thè only suitable measure for occasionai offenders, when thè offence is slight. The same must be said for qualified banishment (temporary removai from thè place where thè crime was committed), which may be added as a preventive measure, and as a satisfaction for thè injured party, in thè same cases where thè payment of damages is thè Principal retribution. There remains thè conditional sentence. A judge may decide, in thè case of first offenders who appear to him to cali for such treatment, that thè sentence, or thè execution of thè sentence, shall be suspended for a given period, after which, if thè offender has been of good behaviour, and has not committed another offence, thè sentence is effaced and thè condemnation is regarded as non-existent ; whilst in thè other case thè sentence takes effect, and thè punishment is added to that of thè new crime. This conditional suspension, however, assumes two very different forms. At Boston, in thè State of Massachusetts, from thè year 1870 in thè case of minors, and from 1878 in thè case of adults, judgment is suspended without regard even to thè gravity of thè crime or to thè antecedents of thè criminal ; and this custom has applied to thè entire State from thè year 1880. All that thè judge does is to fix thè period of probation. There is a probation officer whose business it is to keep his eye on thè persons affected, and who has