Two Reports Ok Sex Offences

REVIEW VOL larecommendations in regard to increased judicial strength, accommodation and staff are also implemented.It would be a tragedy if cheese-paring financial objections to the latter were allowed to hold up the introduction of this vital reform but in the light of the Committee's Report this seems unthinkable.The Committee refer in passing t o a number of the other matters that are receiving attention such as the reorganisation of the circuit system and the High Court Divisions, and appeals.Their subsequent Reports on these and other proposals for reducing costs will be eagerly awaited; for upon them may well depend the future prosperity and independence of the legal profession.L. C. B. GOWER.TWO REPORTS ON SEX OFFENCE8 1. Psycho-Therapeutic Treatment of Certain Offenders with special reference to the case of persons convicted of sexual and unnatural offences.Scottish Home Department.Report by the Scottish Advisory Council on the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders.2. The Criminal Law and Sexual Offenders.A Report of the Joint Committee on Psychiatry and the Law appointed by the British Medical Association and the Magistrates' Assodation.(Published by the British Medical Association, 1049, price 8d.)It is symptomatic of the serious attention now being given in this country to the position of the sex offender that, within a comparatively short period of time, these two Reports should have been published, both of them dealing, in part at least, with the same aspects of the subject

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