The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal April 30 1906

III] THE CRIMINAL 144iy JOVRNAL 113 Whitt then are the specific charges against the grand jury systeni At the beginning of the eighteenth century some of the very ablest minds in England began to appreciate the grievous iniquities of the inqusitorial process and Jeremy Bentham as early as 1825 speaking of the incongruities of the English Penal Procedure marshalled the following specifica [...] We seek to make the child a co-worker with the state for his own salvation which of course in the end is the salvation of the state ; for the AU is the state and the state is the child. [...] The whole spirit and purpose Of the law is to help and assist the child in the home where it needs assistance and to compel the parents to perform their duty where they are neglecting the child It stands to reason that neither the cuort nor the probation Officers"Vol. [...] The cost of dtecting and convicting criminals for a period of three years in the city of Denver through the criminal courts was $1 020 000 as appears from the tables in the booklet on the Problem of the Children.- The saving to the people in actual dollars and cents during three years under the juvnile court system was over $250 000 cash. [...] The press pulpit schools and all the people in Colorado are thoroughly convinced of the wisdom of the juvenile court laws and juvenile court system as one of the most potent factors in the solution of the great problem of crime and while the saving to citizenship is the most important thing at the same time nothing has saved to the state more of its wealth as well as of its men and women of