JUVENILE CRIME
FIGURES SHOW INCREASE STATISTICIAN’S COMMENT (THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter.) "WELLINGTON, To-day. Statistics of juvenile crime just issued by the Government Statistician, Mr. Malcolm Fraser, show that offences committed in 1926 by children under, or apparently under, the age of 16, numbered 2,261, as compared with 1,461 in 1925. “The substantial increase in juvenile crime in 1926,” Mr. Malcolm Fraser says in comment, “is no doubt due in part to the coming into operation on April 1 of the Child Welfare Act of 1925. There is, however, a strong probability that the figures for earlier years were under-stated through not being marked juvenile. “Offences by juveniles are seldom of a very sei'ious nature, and even when a conviction is recorded, magistrates frequently adopt the course of discharging the offender or ordering him to come up for sentence when called upon. “In the latter class, it rests almost entirely with the offender himself, whether any further steps are taken, and it is found that in very few cases does the future conduct of the convicted person render it necessary for him to be brought before a magistrate again for sentence.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 9
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190JUVENILE CRIME Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 9
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