Show EDUCATION AND CRIME since 1870 the number of children lit in 1 H has increased from to and the number of portions in english prisons has aaa fallen front from 1 ODO to soito the early an biage ot of persons sentenced to penal servitude for aggravated crimes has decreased from W to SOO 00 while juvenile offend ei cia 8 its hae e fallen from to some enthusiastic believers in the th theory eo ry that as education la is enlarged erl crime Is iff decreased insist that the min smaller aller perm percentage la Is due to the greater percent a ge of persons who have enjoyed the benefit b on of the instruction imparted iti in the schools tho taft experience on one aide of the english channel hovi however ever is curiously at t variance with the lie caper lence on the ther other side elac in fiance the criminal nta and tile the statements of I 1 he magistrates show allow that as aa schools schoola have been opened prisons have been filled and that the diffusion of education has ha been accompanied apparently with nn an increase of crime especially juvenile crime keeping children in sell school ool ought apparently to homo home extent keep thurn from the commission of petty perry of rouses by lessening opportunity but it if this be bf the case the name bamo effect should be produced in prance france as aa in england A french journal offers the explanation that in france as under the republic education la Is pimply intellectual intellects I 1 instruction while in england there a is 13 not only instruction but training moral and religious influences are bro brought u gilt to boar bear upon the manda of the you n g there Is not much soundness in totor contention that when ahert ou build a schoolhouse you close the door of a jall the people or of no lie other country append nil more money for education than the people of tile the united states but crime has haa more imore than kept pace with instruction and it is worth our while to consider whether this result may not be in some measure due to tile the quality of the teaching |