Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the Fundamental Principles of American Law and Procedure, Accompanied by Leading Illustrative Cases and Legal Forms, with a Revised Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries (Classic Reprint)

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The attention of citizens generally is being at tracted to a reform of our penal institutions. Some progress in that direction has been made by legisla tion and some by improvements in state institutions. Thus many of our offenders are now treated as pa tients for the surgeon or physician rather than as criminals to be confined in penitentiaries. Public spirited bodies are also investigating the causes of crime and are seeking to find ways and means for its prevention.

Success in reducing the number of criminal ofiend ers rests largely upon a reform in the administration of criminal law and criminal procedure as enforced in the courts today. In turn, a knowledge of the basic principles of these branches of the law is the first essential to reform.

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