Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts
Author: first_name: Thomas
last_name: Holmes
Language: English
Year: 1902

Thomas Holmes served for 20 years as a police court missionary for the London courts. Police court missionaries, often sponsored by temperance unions, were the predecessors to today’s probation officers. Their role was to get convicted criminals back on the straight and narrow, and to help them stay there.

In his years in this job, Holmes got a very close look at the causes of crime, and to the difficulty people had in staying back out of the courts once in the system. Chief among the causes