Clarke Hall Fellowship & Penal Reform Probation: Corporal Punishment: By the Archbishop of York
| Author | H.E. Norman |
| Published date | 01 January 1939 |
| Date | 01 January 1939 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/026455053900300401 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Probation
The Journal of the National Association of Probation Officers
CLARKE HALL FELLOWSHIP &
PENAL REFORM
PROBATION:
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT:
By
THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
THE Clarke Hall Fellowship
criminal is a human being.
By
exists to commemorate the
that I mean that society has recog-
life of Sir William Clarke
nised that a thief, for instance, is
Hall, who was a pioneer in the
never only a thief; and least of all
treatment of juvenile offenders
to be classified as a thief
along what
simply
were the recognised
sane and humane lines.
It com-
on the ground that on a particular
memorates his principles in rela-
occasion he stole.
It is true that
tion to the whole administration
his theft brought him under the
of penal law.
operation of the law and that the
I happen to have been, more
State has got to begin by treating
than I knew, the instrument in
him from that point of view, but
the formation of the Fellowship
the State can never let the matter
because I announced its forma-
end there.
He is also a human
tion in a sermon at St. Martin’s-
being, who, on a particular occa-
in-the-Fields at a moment when
sion as the result of influences
its promoters were very uncertain
playing upon his life and under
as to whether it was going to be
the pressure of temptation of the
formed.
moment, in fact committed a
I believe there is no department
crime. The handling of him on
in the national life which has
any narrower basis
than that
made more progress in the period
would be a mistake.
That; 1
since, at any rate, I have been able to observe it. We
think, we may fairly say is the background of the
have been returning at one point after another to
probation system.
the principles, which give expression to a very much
If we are to start from that point of view it is
wider understanding of the delinquent and the
inevitable that the first result should be the special
criminal than was exhibited by the old rule-of-thumb
treatment of the younger delinquents,...
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