More Turn To Crime
(N.Z . P. A . -Reut er—Copyrt ght > LONDON, October 27. More women in Britain are turning to crime. The chief constable of Salford, Lancashire, Mr James Cotton, in a report today said the increase of crime among women in Britain was an “unmistakable feature of recent statistics.” In Salford alone, he said, before 1960 women were only one-sixteenth of the adult criminals in the city. Now there was one woman to every 11 men.. “Traditionally, the criminal population has been composed mainly of men. This remains true,” Mr Cotton said. “But there now appear to be new external pressures which are causing many more women to commit petty
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30586, 31 October 1964, Page 21
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111More Turn To Crime Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30586, 31 October 1964, Page 21
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