Scottish Probation Conference
| DOI | 10.1177/026455053400101904 |
| Date | 01 April 1934 |
| Published date | 01 April 1934 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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SCOTTISH PROBATION CONFERENCE
The Scottish Central Probation Council calls its
FIRST OFFICIAL CONFERENCE IN GLASGOW.
T HE first official conference on Probation called by
Probation a National Service.
the Scottish Central Probation Council was
it,
Mr. Basil
held in Glasgow
Henriques (London), in an inspiring address
on 3oth and 31St March. The
Rt. Hon. Lord Polwarth, C.B.E., V.D., D.L.,
on Probation as an Essential National
occupied
Service, set a
the Chair and was supported by Councillor J. Bruce
very high standard both for speeches and discussions
which was maintained
Murray, D.L., LL.D. (Chairman of the Glasgow Probation
throughout the proceedings.
In
Committee), Mr. George Morton, K.C. (Sheriff Prin-
admitting the need for a deterrent in dealing with
serious
cipal of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff. ; formerly
offenders, Mr. Henriques stated that by far the
Chairman of the Departmental Committee
greatest deterrent value in imprisonment was to hold
on Young
the
Offenders, Scotland), the Hon. The Lord Provost of
prison as an unknown terror that would only be
used
Dundee (Mr. W. H. Buist, O.B.E.) and Mr. G. E. Troup,
as a last resort, and that no young person should
be allowed to
M.A. (Secretary
see the inside of a
to the Scottish Central Probation
prison until every other
influence had failed.
Council).
They were all proud of the Borstal
system which was used for preventing prison contamin-
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for
ation of young offenders, but what could be more
Scotland (Mr. A. Noel Skelton, M.P.), who was to have
absurd than that boys and girls on their way to Borstal
opened the Conference was detained by business in the
should have to spend weeks in prison awaiting removal
House of Commons.
to Borstal institutions.
One of the greatest prison.
Mr. Joseph Westwood; M.P. (Ex Under Secretary of
reforms that could be instituted at the present time
State for Scotland), who
&dquo;
was
present, disclosed deep...
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