JUVENILE CRIME IN FRANCE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1587, 2 November 1912, Page 13

JUVENILE CRIME IN FRANCE.

. EXTRAOEDIiJiBT INCREASE. The roport, addressed to the President of the French Republic on this administration of criminal justitß.for the. year 1910 hag just appeared. Whilst ; .criincs against prooorty show a slight decrease, crimes of violence are .steadily, increasing; but the most disquieting featuTe is...the extraordinary increoso in luyemlo crime. In 1910, 3G per cent, of all the accused who appeared before a jury were minora -that is, under iil .years, of age. In Police.. Court cases the figure .is even j more formidable. Hero is the official table :- Criminals raider 18 ;..-.;.-.;; *37 From 19 to 16 ;....:.:.;....;... 2,90 i From 16 to 18 -■.;:.-...:... .7,300 From 18 to 31 i........;v„.. ; _' 2^195 Total .........,;•....;.. .:> 32,136 "In fact," the report concludes, "the ' maximum, of criminality, both for, males and females, was found, khbhg; prisoners from 18 to 21.yeo.rs of ago, thohgli the figures of.feihiliihe crirtie are proportionately iniiclr smaller. Among hieii of front 18 to 21 there'hj-e 301 prisoners for every 10.000 inhabitants of. the same agoahfl sex. This ratio is throe tinife greater than that established arbbhg. those who hat'o ieaclied their majority."