LESS CRIME
DOMINION’S GOOD SHOWING.
AUCKLAND, Monday,
The oft-expressed opinion that crime increases in most countries during times of industrial depression does not apply to New Zealand, as is shown by some comparative figures quoted by the Minister of Justice, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe. In giving the population of the Dominion’s prisons for the past four years, Mr Cobbe showed that there had been a decline in the daily average number of prisoners in custody as follows: — 1931, 1634; 1932, 1669; 1933, 1542; 1934, 1360. The Minister also said that during the past six months there had been a decided decline in the number of committals to prisons and to Borstal institutions. The number was still steadily decreasing, and the number in custody on the last Saturday in March of this year was 1217, as compared with 1439 at the same time in 1934, 1580 in 1933, and 1645 in 1932. , “It is difficult to ascribe any individual cause for this reduction,” said Mr Cobbe, “but it is remarkable in that the experience of most countries is for crime to increase during times of industrial depression. There is no doubt that the drafting of men to unemployment camps and better arrangements for the after-care of discharged prisoners in preventing relapses have been a helpful factor. (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 April 1935, Page 5
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