CRIME IN BRITAIN.
GOVERNMENT STATISTICS. INFLUENCE OF THE WAR. London, April 21. Crime has taken a new form, according to the Government’s criminal statistics. There has been a great increase in crimes of dishonesty, accompanied by violence, of which the removal of the contents of warehouses in motor-vans is a typical example. Frauds and commercial dishonesty have also flourished. This is assignable to the debasing effects of the war upon conduct and character. On the contrary, crimes of personal violence and others savouring of habitual criminality, are tending to diminish. Professionals apparently have adopted newer and more profitable crimes than burglary and larceny, which generally are serious. Lawbreaking has steadily diminished for a number of years, except in respect to armed gangs using motor-cars. The report states that the improvement obviously is connected with th© decreaseof prosecutions for drunkenness, which w*re 81,659 in 1923, contrasting with the«*rHntial average of 189,204 from 1909 to 1913.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1925, Page 7
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