CRIME RECORDS
AMERICAN/. FTfiURER FOR 1932. NEW YORK, March 31. Tho United States Department of Justice, which 0:1 February 1, 1932, ,-began (E'fisil'jying Us finger-print re- ■ eb’i'd.r' according to the type of crimes committed', the' age, sex. rang. and j previous, records of those arrested, found 39. per cent' of: the 277.778 po.rsji’r, arrested for fc’dnito by the A.m©t , L c.on police in tap final eleven months of 1932 b«W 25 years of age. 1 Tils records, which do hot include arrests for the violation .of prohibition. ! 'd'sc.] os id that 49 per cent 0 f the avrests were far larceny. Rurglary, vagrancy. or of persons detained on suspicion pending investigation, that 44 pe r . cent had a previous crimin 1 'history among tliosp of the 4.431,419 persons rmv in the department’s records. ! and that on'v 7 per cent were women. '((ho most prevalent mime . among.; women was larceny, while' th c only offence in which the. ratio of women pr'-sonms ' exceeded m;n was violation of the narcotic laws.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1933, Page 3
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