CRIME IN NEW YORK.
j VICIOUS YOUTH OF TODAY. SEARCH FOR A PANACEA. INFLUENCE OF THE HOME. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 15. The State Prison Commission, following a survey, declared that an alarming criminal situation exists. It asserted that the criminals of America to-day are its youth, pointing out that whereas the prison population twelve years ago was composed of well-known wrongdoers and older men, the entire population of the Tombs prison consists of men and boys under 30 years of age. of whom a large number are between 16 and 20. The report said that conversations gave the impression that these do not possess tough, sordid natures, most being of the ordinary type seen about the streets. Very few seemed to realise their desperate plight, the seriousness of the crimes committed, or the outlook for their future lives. The commission urged the establishment of a foundation for the studying of the localities of the homes from whence these criminals come, and advocated an organised attempt to improve the surroundings and influences driving them to crime: also building more accommodation, obviating the herding of young boys with hardened criminals.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 13, 16 January 1926, Page 9
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