SOME RESULTS OF REPEAL
REPEAL INCREASES CRIME In the first ten years after Repeal in the U.S.A. the general crime rate increased from 59 per 1,000 in 1932 to 155 per 1,000 in 1942; drunkenness increased 174 per cent., and drunken driving 97 per cent. Director Hoover said in Michigan before the war (June 14, 1937) that criminologists had to cope with 4.300.000 criminals actively at work in the U.S.A. Whether war has increased or decreased the criminal element has yet to he shown statistically, hut for certain liquor has been and will con-, tinue to be a major contributing cause to crime both in the United States and wherever it is consumed No country ever had liquor without crime, but those countries who are without liquor aie almost without crime. This at least is significant.
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White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 5, 1 June 1946, Page 5
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136SOME RESULTS OF REPEAL White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 5, 1 June 1946, Page 5
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