ABSTRACT
One of the principal objects of the measures so far recommended in-this book is to make the administration of criminal justice more scientific. This, however, is only one side of the problem. It is equally important to make criminal justice more democratic. This would require a discussion of the following questions: the part to be played by the lay magistrate and the juror; the employment of, and co-operation between, laymen and trained workers in other sections of the penal system; the position of the professional judge and magistrate, and of the lawyer as advocate; legal aid for the poor defendant; the question of public versus private enterprise in penal administration; the introduction of more democratic methods, especially of suitable forms of inmate participation (“shared responsibility”), in the management of penal and reformatory institutions; and, finally, the significance of international co-operation. For reasons of space, not all of these problems can, however, be discussed in the present book.
