BRITISH CRIME
LESS VIOLENCE, BUT MORE DISHONESTY. LONDON, April 21. Crime has taken a new form, according to the Government’s criminal statistics. There has been a great increase in crimes of dishonesty accompanied by violence, of which tne removal of the contents of warehouses in motor vans is a typical example. Frauds and acts of commercial dishonesty also flourished. This, it is held, can be assigned to the debasing effects of war upon conduct and character. On the other hand, crimes of personal violence and others savouring of habitual criminality ana tending to diminish. Professional criminals, apparently, have adopted newer and more profitable crimes than burglary and larceny. Generally speaking, serious lawbreaking has steadily diminished for a number of years, except for armed gangs using motor cars. The report states that the improvement is obviously connected with the decrease in the prosecutions for drunkenness, which totalled 81,659 in 1923, as compared l with the annual average of 189,204 for the years 190913. *
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 4 May 1925, Page 11
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