“A period of two or three years under a probation officer has saved thousands of people from becoming thoroughly bad…For that reason I believe that probation has prevented crime more than any form of punishment. It might be argued that the world at large regards the offender who has been placed on probation as one who has got off scot free and that, therefore, probation is no deterrent. That was true in the past, and may be true now, but becomes less true as the public gets to know what is required of probationers.”
