Essay on Probation System in U.S.A ! It is generally said that great ideas often have modest beginning. This is true with the origin of probation as well. In America John Augustus, a shoe-maker of Boston in 1841 volunteered to stand bail for a person charged with drunkenness in a local court. The defendant showed signs of reform. […]
Essay on Enactments regarding the Probation System in India! Besides the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, the provisions of Sections 360 and 27 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 also provide for the release of certain offenders on probation. These provisions may briefly be stated as follows: [...]
Essay on No Probation for Convicted Corrupt Persons in India ! The Supreme Court in State Supdtt. Police, New Delhi v. Ratan Lal Arora, categorically refused to extend the benefit of release on probation to the offender convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The accused in this case was serving in DESU and had been convicted for demanding [...]