QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT
1. What is a crime?
2. In what way may bad economic conditions be connected with crime?
3. What are the social causes of crime? What are the personal causes?
4. In what way are defects of government related to crime?
5. Summarize the remedies for crime.
6. Trace the influence of Magna Charta upon our ideal of justice.
7. How does the administration of our criminal law often result in injustice?
8. Why is it necessary to reform our criminal procedure?
9. What is the nature and function of the legal aid society?
10. What is a Public Defender? How does he help secure justice?
11. Trace the development of the theory of punishment.
12. What is the purpose of the "individualized treatment of offenders"?
13. What is the function of a probation system?
14. How should mentally defective criminals be treated?
15. Describe the work of the Juvenile Court.
16. Outline the purpose of the indeterminate sentence.
17. What are the chief functions of a modern prison?