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Crime, Senescence and Senility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

W. Norwood East*
Affiliation:
Formerly H.M. Commissioner of Prisons, etc

Extract

In recent years authoritative opinion in this country has decided that aged persons are less suited for magisterial duties in a juvenile court than justices who are younger.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1944 

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