CRIMES BY YOUTHS
ALARMING INCREASE
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")
CHKISTCHURCH,- This Day.
The frequency of crime for which youths arc responsible was commented on iv the Supreme Court yesterday, when a prisoner was being sentenced on charges of breaking and entering and theft.
"Cases of tbis nature where boys have been guilty are becoming more and more frequent," said the ActingCrown Prosecutor (Mr. A. W. Brown), "and the probation officer has placed emphasis on the fact that, in view of the large number of crimes, some of a particularly serious nature, it seems necessary that exemplary punishment should be imposed."
"This class of crime is growing portentously in Christchurch and New Zealand," declared his Honour Mr. Justice Adams, "and it leads one to fear that the leniency shown in the past is being misinterpreted. There is evidently an idea prevalent that young people are entitled to commit at least one serious crime without serious consequences."
The prisoner in this case was sentenced to detention at a Borstal institution for three .years.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 23
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174CRIMES BY YOUTHS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 23
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