This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... 490 1nefficacy op present punishment. supplementary chapter. Transportation And The Ticket-ok-leave System.--Necessity for a revival of transportation--Opposed by the 'Edinburgh Review'--Advocated liy Sir W. Crofton and the ' Times'--A benefit both to society and to the convict--Dr. Wilson on improvement in dealing with convicts--Transportation Committee of 1835--Object of the witnesses--Obligations to Sir William Molesworth--Abolition of transportation to Australia--Locality for a new penal settlement--The lash for garotters and young criminals. Ticket-of-leave holders--Evil of interfering with judicial sentences--Origin of ticket-system in Australia--Conditional pardons and tickets of leave there--Tickets of leave in England; their conditions only nominal--Restriction of residence--Revocation of tickets--Conduct in prison no test of reformation--Evils of remitting portions of sentences--Treatment of obdurate criminals--Working of the ticketsystem--Evidence of Sir f. Jebb--Necessity for police surveillance--Points in the system requiring amendment. A Prominent subject of discussion in England at the present time is the prevalence of crime, and the important question how to deal with our criminals. The inefficacy of our existing system--the over-indulgence of prisoners in gaols--the daring and novel aspect crime has assumed in London and the principal towns--the expediency of returning to transportation--the abolition or amendment of the present ticket-of-leave system--are topics which have formed the subject of remonstrance and complaint by juries to judges on circuit, and in the press throughout the country. The subject has, moreover, occasioned the appointment of a Royal Commission to consider the most efficacious mode for the...