YOUNG CRIMINALS
STARTLING FEATURE. Youths on Indictable Charges In Britain. RECORD OF OFFENCES. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, June 19. A startling feature of the Home Office report on criminal statistics shows that nearly half the indictable offences of 1932 were committed byyouths of under 21, including a huge proportion of house and shop-break-ing. Offences and crimes numbered 208,175, the highest figure this century. There were 5057 suicides, the highest number ever recorded in Britain.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 144, 20 June 1934, Page 7
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