BRITISH CRIME.
LESS VIOLENCE. MORE DISHONESTY. LONDON, April 22. Crime has taken a iicav 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 th? contents of warehouses in motor vans is a typical example. Frauds and acts of commercial dishonestv also nourished. This, it is held, can he assigned to the debasing effects of war upon conduct and character. On the other band, crimes of personal violence and others savouring of habitual criminality are tending to diminish. Professional criminals, apparently, have adopted newer and more profitable crimes than burglary and larceny. Generally speaking, serious lawbreaking has steadily diminished for a number of years, except for armed The report states that the improvement is obviously connected with the decrease in the prosecutions for drunkenness. which totalled 81.659 in 1923. as compared with the annual average of 189,204 for the years 1909-13.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 1
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