CHILD CRIME
SEVENTEEN IS PEAK AGE
One person in every 55 of the population of London committed an indictable crime in the war-peace year of 1945. In his report on the record crime year Sir Harold R. Scott, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, shows how child criminals, operating in gangs with as many as 12 members, are one of the big post-war problems of the London police. The number of young persons under 21 arrested, he points out, was the highest for ten years, and the “peak” age for juvenile crime was 17.
More than 41 per cent, of the total arrests for thefts from houses and more than 60 per cent, of the arrests for thefts from cars were persons under 21.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 34, 7 October 1946, Page 7
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121CHILD CRIME Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 34, 7 October 1946, Page 7
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