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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 954, 22 November 1957, Page 15

NEW ZEALAND CRIME TRENDS NZ ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR CONSUMPTION PER HEAD IN 1940 WAS 11 GALS. IN 1946 IT WAS 17 GALS. AND IN 1956 IT WAS 22 GALLONS per head INCREASED LIQUOR CONSUMPTION LEADS To INCREASED CRIME NEW ZEALAND INCREASES: 1947 1951 1956 DRUNKENNESS CONVICTIONS 2432 4113 5053 DRUNK DRIVING 331 603 933 OFFENCES AGAINST MORALITY (RAPE, ETC ) increased from 113 in 1944 to 308 in 1956. The Justice Report SuyS: "A GREAT MANY OF THE OFFENCES ARE AGAINST CHILDREN: "OUR PRISONS AND BORSTALS ARE FILLED To CAPACITY: "987 OF THESE ARE UNDER TWENTY (21 % OF ThE TOTAL): 1i "117 FEMALES IN 1956, AN INCREASE OVER 1952 OF 44 % OVERSEAS THE POSITION IS WORSE: BRITISH CRIME (Males 17-20) during 1949-54, increases were: violence 57 % ; sexual 65 % ; drunkenness 167 % U.S.A= REPORT Juvenile major crime from 1950-55 increased 45 % A WORLD AUTHORITY, DR E M: JELLINEK , NARCOTICS DIVISION OF THE WORLD'S HEALTH ORGANISATION; UNITED NATIONS, states: "The death rate, crime rate and accident rate in a given community varies according to the average alcohol con- sumption; when alcoholism decreases, So do death, crime and accident rates; and relaxation of restrictions on alcohol is followed by a rise in commitments to asylums, hospitalisations and delinquency. The Choice is BUILD MORE GAoLS MORE HOSPITALS, MORE MENTAL HOMES , OR VOTE PROHIBITION PREVENTION ConrhnuaNCE IS B ETTER Ivote fr-MOHAE THAN CURE Lvta-Fo STHFE- PRGHSEGEHRRAL STRIKE OUT THE Two Ivote forNATIONAL PROHIBIToN ToP LINES Inserted by NZ. Alliance .