Show DECREASE OF CRIME it icib to claimed that durigg the last period of about twenty five fire years year or from 1868 to 1894 crime boo baa been on ois the be decrease in england fingl aad generally we he problem to i to account for the ta ln crease of crime and to find a remedy for it but it if be statistics given or ar reliable the conclusion seems to be well founded that these important questions quee tiona are about to be rue rho deor de oreade loase la Is sea se aa A d to be abbes 8 per es cent rho on tho the average abe number of person arrested arre eted as ae offenders dera persona or property t wenty twenty years yeam ago RO was wai ten tea years yean later the number was w and I 1 in 11 1892 98 only a decrease all the more marked it if the increase loore aie of population during the same ame period to la into consideration Often fea embracing cruelty to ani an mate mals drunkenness sanitary tary sod by clot ter to lo rules rulea are always large and such crimes crime are more closely looked after and there to la a natural expectation tt tr at he increase to in the number of uch such i benson would be large on the be contrary the increase inore ae is IB only 24 above the record of ten years ago but as aa the box baa increased 12 per con cent there la is a real decrease of 10 per cent the criminal class clam known to the police P including deluding those at large as aa well a not in confinement bow a de creams in nu number aber of t rh e at birgil numbered in 1881 in 1890 in 1891 80 A to in loubon itself me kid trio toe best beet showing bow ing in ID every perso penona noi there were known to the he 15 JD in london 60 50 la in provincial office sod 61 in tre toe country Af morning orning of amaat 1894 aye gayb the annoyed by the be urvel Hano orthe or I 1 be police are isay ing london wid ad blatt ling in the pro IP rd houses of bad repute deo reared tn in number in ibre evear from 2689 2688 to 2860 2800 Jd Tenile offender chri e under 16 vears team of aee ade in 1868 69 thin figure has hai fallen beadily steadier tea dily until is 18 we last record I 1 every of population there were wake 49 46 juvenile offenders of in 1868 1870 26 25 in 1 n 1898 a decrease d e ores me of lo 10 per ce cent n L it must be remembered that this de erenee bresse in not due to any ny change in the administration of the laws lawa or to a re lax atlon of their rigidity on the son oon arary the he laws law have been nude made more stringent oi and the be number bumber of arresto for every hundred crimes bow shows that we the execution of 0 the jews lawit la is more thir auga for in 1886 1887 there wore were 44 to la 46 65 arrests for evo every hundred orlin crime and to in 1892 1891 2 there ore won were or ar f V a the number abar 0 of police hajdan haJ Ban ar ta ilis and abid the apen a a ow on I 1 chife account to la now dow 14 2 S ai per cout cent larger than in ID 1950 tp I 1 the same ame way the lay intemperance against crusty to children anu avol lost truancy are re it oia ore rigidly enforced in 1861 1891 there were arleata and add tiona cons for pr violation of the ibe school Is lae it Js farther k claimed tout divorces divor ceo nde aee ot of bankruptcy have similarly in the berd mentioned A writer 14 the independent from which journal the figures are borrowed olaida that in inthis abia ia istone to be issen een the reoul of the work of the for t S a prevention of cruelty to 40 Chil children drin as aa well as aa of the moral and religious training train log of the be in the schools nc hoole and li it is riot dot improbable that this Is if hii candeth every demoralized bihl become in time a menloe to so BO biety and the she brutality to which many youth subjected in bome 1 1 that hardly deserve the name the evil eril 1010 which they are reared are re seede that sit at lost ripen into crimes of various descriptions according to abo instincts of the child the lesson conveyed by those 11 is that th tb proper trai ing ienir ot ol the children ob ildren to is one of abe most imo matters to which blob a state ate can give its ito attention |