INCREASE IN CRIME
BRITISH STATISTICS
(Special P.A. Correspondent.)
LONDON, December 19. Crime continues to hold the main place in the news, in addition to political and international events. Shop-breaking has inci-eased by 92. per cent, compared with 1938. Robberies and assaults are up by 41 per cent, over last year and 106 per cent, over 1938. Car thefts have risen by 184 per cent, compared with 1944, but are only 25 per cent, greater than in 1938. Larcenies from dwelling houses are 48 per cent, higher than in 1944 and 155 per cent, higher than in 1938. The increase in petty larcenies is not so great—l 7 per cent, over 1944 and 61 per cent, over 1938. It is stated that deserters from the forces are not the main cause of the present crime wave, though they have a considerable influence on it. The increase in crime that has always followed war is regarded as not so much due to the individual soldier's training in the trade of violence as to the general misery and unsettlement, which provide greater opportunities for the anti-social behaviour of any one soldier or shopbreaker who chooses to be anti-social.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 7
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195INCREASE IN CRIME Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 7
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