CAUSES OF CRIME.
AMERICAN VIEWPOINT.
REMEDIAL PROPOSALS
Mr Jackson and Mr Burdette Lewis, of the New Jersey State Institutions, addressing a national conference of juvenile a'geneies, outlined the major causes of crime in Hie United States. . These, they said, were the breaking up of the American home, the great decline of fear of eternal punishment, modern materialism and Government complexity, modern Governmental machinery, obsolete laws and procedure, poor pay for judges and prosecutors, Hie lack of adventure in ordinary living, the improper use of firearms, automobiles, and narcotics, the lack of a comprehensive moral and social programme, and congested police courts and penal institutions. Mr Lewis’s remedial proposals included the substitution of the religion of performance for one of negation, the simplification of Government, the elimination of obsolete laws and legal procedure, the international and national control of firearms, automobiles, and narcotics. Mr Lewis declared that Hie United States annual adventure into crime cost between four and ten thousand million dollars.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 2
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