MORE WOMEN IN CRIME
WASHIXGTON, Doc. 30. Drastic inc.reases had oceurred in crinies by women, including robberies motor car thefts, forgery and counter lieting, sex oll'ences other than prostitution, unlawful possession of weapons and olfences against families and children, said the P.B.I. director, Alr. Edgar Hoover. An alarming inercase in juvenih erime during the war had shown a tendeney to level off during the first nine months of 1046. further inereases in female arrcsts, however, might portend a- future rising juvenile crime rate be cause mdthers and sisters participatinj in lawlessness, could conceivably havu an adverse effect on children. ;
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 December 1946, Page 5
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