Criminal sociology and penal legislation, 143--Classification
of punishments, 144--The reform of criminal procedure, 145--The
two principles of judicial procedure, 147--Principles
determining the nature of the sentence, 147--Present principles of
penal procedure a reaction against medi<ae>val abuses, 147--The
``presumption of innocence,'' 148--The verdict of ``Not Proven,''
149--The right of appeal, 151--A second trial, 151--Reparation to
the victims of crime, 152--Need for a Ministry of Justice, 153--
Public and private prosecutors, 154--The growing tendency to drop
criminal charges, 155--The tendency to minimise the official
returns of crime, 156--Roman penal law, 156--Revision of judicial
errors, 158--Reparation to persons wrongly convicted, 158--
Provision of funds for this purpose, 160--Reparation to persons
wrongly prosecuted, 161--Many criminal offences should be tried as
civil offences, 162--The object of a criminal trial, 163. II. The
crime and the criminal, 164--The stages of a criminal trial, 165--
The evidence, 166--Anthropological evidence, 166--The utilisation
of hypnotism, 168--Psychological and psycho-pathological evidence,
168--The credibility of witnesses, 168 Expert evidence, 169--An
advocate of the poor, 172--The judge and his qualifications, 172--
Civil and criminal judges <p xii>should be distinct functionaries,
173--The student of law should study criminals, 174--Training of
police and prison officers, 174--The status of the criminal judge,
175--The authority of the judge, 176. III. The jury, 177--Origin
of the jury, 178--Advantages of the jury, 179--Defects of the
jury, 180--The jury as a protection to liberty, 182--The jury and
criminal law, 184--Juries untrained and irresponsible, 186--
Numbers fatal to wisdom, 188--Defects of judges, 193--Difference
between the English and Continental jury, 194--Social evolution
and the jury, 196--The jury compared to the electorate, 197--How
to utilise the jury, 198. IV. Existing prison systems a failure,
201--Defects of existing penal systems, 201--The abuse of short
sentences, 202--The growth of recidivism, 203--Garofalo's scheme
of punishments, 204--Von Liszt's scheme of punishments, 206--The
basis of a rational system of punishment, 207--The indeterminate
sentence, 207--Flogging, 210--The indefinite sentence for habitual
offenders, 211--Van Hamel's proposals as to sentences, 212--The
liberation of prisoners on an indefinite sentence, 213--The
supervision of punishment, 213--Conditional release, 215--Good
conduct test in prisons, 216--Police supervision, 216--
Indemnification of the victims Of crime, 217--The duty of the
State towards the victims of crime, 222--Defensive measures must
be adapted to the different classes of criminals, 225--Uniformity
of punishment, 225--The prison staff, 227--Classification of
prisoners, 227--Prison labour, 228. V. Asylums for criminal
lunatics, 230--The treatment of insane criminals, 232--Crime and
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