Federal Probation, Volumi 11-12

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Administrative Office of the United States Courts, 1947
 

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Pagina 7 - Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; And the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Pagina 9 - The Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury...
Pagina 52 - If we do not prepare children to become good citizens ; — if we do not develop their capacities, if we do not enrich their minds with knowledge, imbue their hearts with the love of truth and duty, and a reverence for all things sacred and holy, then our republic must go down to destruction, as others have gone before it...
Pagina 33 - To save a child from becoming a criminal, or from continuing in a career of crime, to end in maturer years in public punishment and disgrace, the Legislature surely may provide for the salvation of such a child, if its parents or guardian be unable or unwilling to do so, by bringing it into one of the courts FEDERAL PROBATION of the state without any process at all, for the purpose of subjecting it to the state's guardianship and protection.
Pagina 34 - The very purpose of the act is to prevent a trial the act is not for the trial of a child charged with a crime, but is mercifully to save it from such an ordeal, with the prison or penitentiary in its wake, if the child's own good and the best interests of the state justify such salvation.
Pagina 45 - No adjudication upon the status of any child in the jurisdiction of the court shall operate to impose any of the civil disabilities ordinarily imposed by conviction, nor shall any child be deemed a criminal by reason of such adjudication...
Pagina 38 - Many of us who have experimented with licensed prostitution, or kindred measures, hoping thereby to minimize the physical evils, have been forced to the conclusion that they are really ineffective. Abraham Flexner has argued the case so convincingly, that, on the scientific side, it seems to me there is no escape from the conclusion that what he terms "abolition," as distinguished from "regulation," is the only effective mode of combatting this age-long evil.
Pagina 50 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon...
Pagina 51 - While we must accept it as lawful for a department of the government to suppress documents, even when they will help determine controversies between third persons, we cannot agree that this should include their suppression in a criminal prosecution, founded upon those very dealings to which the documents relate, and whose criminality they will, or may, tend to exculpate.

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