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  • Insanity and crime 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)
    In July, 1922 Lord Birkenhead, the then Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, appointed a committee of distinguished jurists "To consider and report what changes, if any, are desirable in the existing law, practice and ...

  • The Law of Property Act, 1922 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)
    I propose to give you this afternoon a brief and very imperfect sketch of the changes made in the English Law of Real Property by the Law of Property Act, 1922. When I tell you that the Act traverses the whole field of ...

  • Legal aid for poor persons 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1931)
    At the annual meeting of the English Bar held on the 11th February, 1928, a discussion arose on the question of legal aid to poor persons, and the Attorney-General, Sir Douglas Hogg (now Lord Hailsham) said, in winding ...

  • New methods for offenders 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)
    When the Society did me the honour of electing me President 20 years ago I chose as the subject of my address "The Prevention and Punishment of Crime." I pointed out that the four great methods of preventing crime were ...

  • The prevention and punishment of crime 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)
    I have chosen as the subject of my address "The Prevention and Punishment of Crime," because it is one of interest, not only to lawyers and statisticians, but to every person who loves his country and would like to see ...

  • Prison life in Eire and the English criminal justice act, 1948 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
    In 1827 Elizabeth Fry enunciated a great axiom to an unbelieving public ?Punishment is not for revenge but to lessen crime and reform the criminal? The belief in this axiom grew slowly but gained more important exponents ...

  • The probation of offenders 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)
    The probation officer must bring home to every child a feeling of the directing force of probation. The old type of loose and lifeless supervision which passed under the name of probation?permitting a boy to go for ...

  • Recent legislation in England and other countries affecting children and young persons 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)
    The Home Office Committee on the treatment of young offenders, over which I presided, spent two years in investigating the difficult problems of child life, and in our Report (Cmd. 2831, 1927). We made many recommendations, ...

  • Recent social legislation in England 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)
    Shortly after I was called to the Bar and went on the Leinster Circuit a very old member of the Circuit advised me in fatherly terms never to neglect to read the Statutes of the year because, as he said, you may be excused ...

  • The treatment of young offenders 

    Molony, Thomas F., Sir (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)
    I propose to bring under your notice this evening some of the recommendations of the Departmental Committee on the treatment of young offenders and to invite your discussion as to how far they are applicable to the ...