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Statistics show that comparatively few
men become criminals after reaching matur-
ity. If the men now serving sentence in our
penal institutions are criminals, it is because
they were made so in childhood.

These were among the problems at hand
in 1907, when the Dominion Parliament
enacted the Juvenile Delinquents Act. It
marked a great advance in the methods of
dealing with delinquent children, for pre-
viously, punishments for childhood crimes
had been most severe. Most important fact
is that the system, under the Act, depends
for its effectiveness on an enlightened public
opinion and public co-operation.

The Juvenile Delinquents Act may be
said to be based on the following principles:

1. Probation is the only effective means of
dealing with youthful offenders.

2. Children are children, even while
breaking the criminal law, and should be
treated as such, not as hardened criminals.

3. Adults should be held criminally re-
sponsible for bringing about criminal delin-
quency in children.

4. This clause should perhaps be more
fully explained, “Trials of children before
a judge specially selected for his fitness for
the work.” Perhaps, in this respect, the
words of Judge Stubbs of Indianapolis, a
most successful juvenile judge, should be
used: “It is the personal touch in dealing
with youngsters that does it. I have often
observed that if Iam on a high platform be-
hind a high desk, such as we have in our city
courts, with a boy on the prisoner’s bench
some distance away, my words had little

effect on him; but if I could get close enough
to him to place my hand on his head or
shoulder, or my arm around him, in nearly
every case I could get his confidence.”

MEN AND WOMEN JUDGES

That applies to British Columbia. Here
judges are chosen not for their knowledge
of justice or their deep learning of law, but
for their kindness, their humaneness, and
most of all their understanding of human
nature. At the present time juvenile judges
appointed under the Act are as follows:
H. C. Hall, Victoria; O. E. Darling, Steve-
ston; Gordon Robson, West Vancouver;
Mrs. Jessie Cant, North Vancouver; Henry
L. Edmunds, New Westminster; George
Milburn, Prince George; T. McLymont,
Prince Rupert; Roy Agler Sargeant, North
Vancouver; Laura E. Jamieson, Burnaby;
John R. Nolan, Fernie; H. S. Wood, Van-
couver; Helen Gregory McGill, Vancouver;
J. F. Burne, Kelowna; George E. McLelland,
Penticton; Robert S. Wood, Ladysmith:
Arthur Rankin, Kamloops; C. H. Beevor-
Potts, Nanaimo; Willam Morley, Vernon;
Hugh Catt, Lumby; W. L. Parkin, Powell
River; H. Sharman, West Summerland; P.
H. Wilson, Chilliwack.

It will be noted that among the judiciary
are the names of several women. Under
the Act, women may act as well as men,
upon the same terms, and subject to the
same conditions.

5. Incarceration of children awaiting
trial (when necessary) in detention homes
instead of gaols.

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