DELINQUENCY IN CHILDREN

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27498, 4 November 1954, Page 12

DELINQUENCY IN CHILDREN

“PROPER SCIENTIFIC” STUDY URGED

WELLINGTON MEETING’S DECISION (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 3. A committee of experts to make a “proper scientific investigation’ of juvenile delinquency in New Zealand was advocated by a public meeting at Wellington last night. This proposal was made after the sponsors of the meeting—Messrs A. Vogt and R. Stroobant, both lecturers at the Wellington Teachers’ College, criticised sections of the findings of the committee that recently Investigated juvenile delmqUTheymeeting, attended by more than 200 persons, decided that the recess committee of Parliament that is to consider further steps to be taken to prevent delinquency should be askea to check the legislation passed at the close of the recent session, to study closely the child welfare laws, and to consider the setting up of an expert committee to make a more detailed scientific inquiry into the problem. The resolution of the meeting said that the views expressed were not intended to involve any political criticism, “as there are no grounds for assuming that any other government would have acted differently m connexion with recent events and the committee of inquiry.”