ABSTRACT

T Hroughout this century the penal systems of Europe and America have sought, with little enough success hitherto, the answers to many questions arising from that central problem of penal law, the habitual criminal—the man who forms the statistical unit in the depressing figures given at the end of Chapter Sixteen. In this matter England took the lead early, and has retained it with the interesting and novel provisions of section 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 1948 and the Rules made in 1949 for implementing those provisions.