M.P. tells how to reduce child crime
New Zealand could reduce the crime rate by children under 14 by making their parents more responsible for their actions, according to the member of Parliament for Invercargill, Mr Norman Jones. He was speaking yesterday at a meeting of the Yaldhurst National Party. An American system to help make parents more responsbie for their children’s actions should be introduced to New Zealand, Mr Jones said.' . .
*Tn Michigan, the system helped to * juvenile crimes siibstan-
tially,” he said. “It ensures that parents appear in court during the hearings for their children’s crime, and that both parents attend night classes on parental skills on alternate niahts. New Zealand had about 16,000 juvenile criminals, under 17, who committed 52 per cent of the total crimes last year, Mr Jones said. “We have lost the battle against juvenile crime because there is nothing the police can do with the offenders. They can take
them along to court and welfare homes, an&that is an.”
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