Urgent talks sought by penal group
PA Auckland Crimanon, the Auckland penal reform group, has asked the Minister of Justice, Mr McLay. to hold an urgent conference on violent crime.
The group asserts that research shows the number of illiterate school-leavers to be increasing at the same rate as crime. It said it believed that the provision of more police would be merely a stopgap measure. “We are faced with an education system which is creating criminals.” said a spokesman for Crimanon. Mr Victor Boyd. . j - “In New Zealand, 75 per cent of prisoners are illiterate or semi-literate. Police figures as early’ as 1976 show that 70 per cent of daylight crime is committed by truants. Over - all, the number of offences reported in that year was 243,348,” he said.
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