CURRENT NOTES.

The article discusses various issues related to criminal law in the U.S. According to a snippet, juvenile delinquency should not be regarded as a totally new problem in wartime. True there is a statistical increase of about ten per cent among the boys and regrettably, some thirty-five per cent among the girls. The war has simply served to intensify the reactions of the young people to conditions which have existed for some time and which one has not as yet solved in their more harmful phases. The average youngster today is undoubtedly receiving less parental care and affection than formerly and also receiving less moral and spiritual guidance. According to another snippet, in a recent English court case, in which a verdict of murder was quashed on appeal, a Lord Chief Justice gave a judgment of great importance. Counsel for the condemned man stated that the trial Judge, in his summing-up, commented on the fact that when cautioned by the police the appellant did not deny the charge but said that he would take advice.