English Juvenile Courts

some extent, but it is impossible to believe that they can account for such wide variations as these. They can only be taken as indicating a regrettable lack of any common standard. If the majority of courts arc right in concluding that at least half the offenders should be put on probation, then the courts that make as little use of it as some of those just mentioned must be falling below the general standard of efficiency. . . . " What is particularly disconcerting is that, at least in my experience, the courts that differ markedly from the average in the use they make of various methods,