Excerpt from Criminals and Crime: Some Facts and Suggestions
That this book has taken shape as a popular treatise is a departure from my original plan and purpose. But I do not regret the change. For apart from the main reason for it, explained in these pages, it has been urged upon me by "men of light and leading" that what is now needed is to convince the general public that the reforms here advocated are both important and practicable.
Some of the most influential Judges of the High Court have spoken to me in this sense. On the last occasion on which I had the privilege of discussing the matter with Mr. Justice Wills - it was before his retirement - he renewed his assurances of sympathy, but raised the objection that the public were not ready to sanction the indefinitely prolonged imprisonment of offenders. I urged in reply that the public would fall into line, if the Judges would adopt Sir James Fitz-James Stephen"s proposal that a criminal"s fate should be determined only after a formal public trial on the issue of his being a "professional."
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