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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.""" SATURDAY, JUNE 10, - 1933.
PSYCHO-THERAPY AND CRIME
recording failures and successes, in
much to be desired, y
70 "SPECIALS” RESIGN
ONE IN THREE SENTENCED. The statistical side of the report SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY IN shows that out of 48,800 people over
SYMPATHY WITH AN the age of 16 found guilty of In- PRISON URGED
dictable offences during 1981, 13,-
EX-POLICE CHIEF Comments on the theory that 482-or about 33 per cont-were
Several senior officers and bo- paycho-therapy can cure many resentenced to imprisonment, penal
[tween 60 and 70 other ranks of the cidivists and most first offenders servitude, or Borstal-detention.
Offences against the intoxicating Metropolitan Special Constabulary are given in the Prison Commission-itquor laws accounted for 48 por of the J Division have resigned, ora report for 1981.
cent, of the imprisonments of wom-
that for
The Medical Commissioner (Dr. en and 10 por cont. of mon. Act Following the big hunger march" W. Norwood East) observes that no ually there were 2,910 "receptions" by the unemployed in London last statistics are available to show how of men and 1,851 of women known November, there, was disciplinary many law breakers in this country to have been in prison before, and action in the case of a Chief In- have had their criminal caroars the Commissioners make this com- spector. checked by psycho-therapy. ...mont:
He is a business man living: In "Many of these people are known "As far as I am aware," he says, to come into prison two or three the division, and when interviewed "no medical paycho-therapeutist has times, and some of them nine or ton on Saturday he asked any extensive experience in this times, in the course of a year. It obvious reasons his name should mothod of dealing with crime. is probable, therefore, that a stage not be revealed... Neither is it to be assumed, that army of 700 or 800 men and 100 "An order was supposed to have the prisoner who commits a crime or 500 womon accounts for these been given to do a certain thing as the result of an abnormal men- 2,010 and 1,851 'receptions," tal state is amenable to psycho- During the last 20 years the num- during the hunger march,” he said. therapy because another individual ber of convictions for drunkenness did not do what, it was sup- with similar compulsions has been has decreased considerably, but pri-posed, I should have done, and was 8D relieved.".
son authorities cannot cope with the charged with not carrying out summoned to n "It is a travesty," he adds, "to very high percentage of recidivism orders. I was suggest that crime is a disease among one little group of women and I denied that I was at fault. Disciplinary Board in January, But it is clearly. the result some- The Commissioners point out that
disorder.
were heard on both times of a neurotic
A persons convicted of serious crimes Witnesses parade of abstract conceptions and form only a small percentage of the sides.
notificùl "Subsequently I was unwarranted assumptions, however, total number sont to prison., In- creates hostility and delays pro- deed, during the year, out of every that they had found against me, was asked to tender my gress where practient lastes are 100 receptions of men, only 16 and Important. The problem is to as- were due to crimes sufficiently ser-resignation. certain how many law-breakers are lous to entail sentences of over genuine when they declare that they three months. The corresponding then many of my colleagues, in the desire to be cured of the pathologi- figure for women was nine.
belief, that I have been unjustly
“I did so,” he added, “and since
cal condition associated with the The number of persons iniprison-treated, have followed suit." crime and how many of these can boed for house-breaking showed an The districts covered by J Divi- treated with success."
Increase of 235 over the previous sion of the Specials includo Hack- Dr. East believes that a scientifle year, and the number for false pre-noy, Dalston, Layton, Leytonstone, investigation at a penal institution, tences an increase of 170.
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