International Review of Educational Cinematography (Jul-Dec 1929)

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number of 233,663. All this besides the legislation already existing from former times* There is no brake on delinquency corresponding to this national orgy in the field of legislation, but a confusion which in itself favors an 3.000.000 1919 1920 1921 1922 F923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 2.300.000 / 2.600.000 / 2.400.000 2.200.000 2.060.000 I.8Q0.000 1.600.000 1,400.000 1.200.000 1.000.000 800.000 600.000 400 000 200 000 General Press Sensational Press increase of crime. Indeed Judge Harlan F. Stone of the Supreme Court observes that the demand for a reform generally found its expression in new laws, that always caused new crimes ยป. The abundance of laws, besides giving rise to confusion also creates a lack of efficacy. There is a difference between the single, curt, synthetic law envisaging and striking a specific offence and an accumulation of provisions overlapping and frequently contradictory in terms, if not also in substance. The people ends by no longer recognizing the validity and authority of this congeries, from which there often arises contempt and disregard of the law itself. Such contempt and disregard are not limited to those who tomorrow may be potential criminals, but extends even to those who are called upon to enforce the penalties. 310