DECREASE IN YOUTHFUL CRIME
(Pkb Peibs Association ) NELSON, March 2
In tho course of Ins address to the Grand .Jury at tlx? Supremo Court today tho Chief Justice (Sir .Robert Stout) referred to the decrease of juvenile crime in Xew Zealand. He quoted statistics showing a genera! decrease of crime from 44.25 per 1000 of the population in 1887 to 28.35 in 1911. and 29.9 in 1912. He thought that it was necessary for him to say this, because some seemed to think that there was a'n increase in youthful crime. The decrease in crime .shown could only be explained hy our rational system of education. We now felt that we were one community, one nation, and had one national life; and the figures quoted showed that our youths were, far hotter than our lathers were, and were lees criminal and loss immoral.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 4 March 1914, Page 6
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143DECREASE IN YOUTHFUL CRIME Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9740, 4 March 1914, Page 6
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