单词 | probation system |
释义 | > as lemmasprobation system probation system n. (a) Australian a system for the management and rehabilitation of convicts, introduced in Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) in 1839, under which an offender passed through stages, as imprisonment, public labour, etc., to a pardon (now historical); (b) = sense 3b. ΚΠ 1840 True Colonist (Hobart) 24 Jan. 4/1 The Colony is already beginning to feel the effects of the new ‘probation system’. 1906 Rep. Reformatory & Industr. Schools 15 in Parl. Papers Cd. 3170 LIII. 637 There is much discussion at present of the advantages of a probation system and of probation officers. Infinite good will undoubtedly be achieved by an effective probation system. 1988 Hist. Educ. Q. 28 121 Pressure for re-organizing and bringing the probation system under central state control was building up. 2002 F. G. Clarke Hist. Austral. iv. 51 A new probation system was introduced that was designed to ensure equality of punishment by gathering all convicts into a number of probation stations where they worked for the government in gangs. < as lemmas |
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