Our Laws and Our Poor: The Influence of the Law, the Orphan's Wrong, and Just Principles of Punishment (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The publication of these essays has been unavoidably delayed, and some of the statistics given are not the very latest, but this does not at all effect the arguments in them. Since they went to press the Government has made an effort to deal with two of the evils of which they treat, viz., in The Artizans' Dwellings Bill, and the Bill to improve the law as regards offences against the person. The writer welcomes these as steps in the right direction, though he believes much stronger measures will be necessary before the evils are corrected.

To the memory of the philanthropists who have gone before; who, like Howard.

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