CRIME IN BRITAIN.
REVIEW BY HOME OFFICE. COMMERCIAL PROBITY DECAYED. Sun. LONDON, March 30. "Commercial probity has decayed owing to the opportunities for getting rich quickly which nave been afforded in certain quarters by the Grerit War," says the review bv the Home Office of crime in 1924. The report shows that frauds totalled 10,247, compared with an average of 7453 for the five years ended December 3, 1923. It says: "The increase in shop-breaking, larceny and fraud was largely due to reckless attempts to live more or less luxuriously without rendering service. This is also traceable to war-time experiences." The Morning Post remarks: "If the suggestion of the Home Office refers to the contracts let by the Ministry of Munitions and the Coalition Government, it is another facet of the many-sided question of State socialism. 'lhe increases prove that the lighter sentences which have been passed on criminals constitute a real social danger."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19291, 1 April 1926, Page 9
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