Show JUVENILE DEPRAVITY IN ITALY criminal parents a and nd wretched homes chiefly to blame consul brittain Britt aln ot of kehl germany furnishes some startling statistics on juvenile crime in italy taken from an article recently published and written by lino Fer ferriana ile he says that SO 80 per cent ot of the child criminals ot of italy are manufactured by bad environment and inadequate education in other words by preventable causes that 30 per cent of the criminals of the country are minors and of these 85 per cent are arc thieves prof ferriana Ferria Fer nl protests against sentimental ti description but pleads for or scientific investigation ile he has closely studied boy prisoners between the ares ages ol of 11 and 1 and reports that more than halt half ot of them came from the most wretched homes and over 4 00 had criminal parents very few had ever done any work all were sexually corrupt nearly all smoked and many had bad a taste for alcohol As a proof of how little good is effected by mere instruction apart from moral training he asserts that tw best scholars were among the worst offenders As an alternative to prison the author proposes agricultural colonies in districts where the air la is bracing with ith good lood food and outdoor work kindly discipline and the supervision vision of an |