Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-22
DECREASE or CRIME.

II Ia claimed that during the last
period Of about twenty-five yearr, or
from 1865 10 1894 crime has been on
the decrease In England. Generally,
tho problem IL to account Tor the In.
crease Of crime and to nnd n remedy
for II, but n the statistics given are
reliable, the conclusion seems 10 be-
well founded that these important
questions aro about 10 be undcutjud.
Tue decrease IL sad to DO about per
cent on the average.
The number NJ Iouons arrested a.
offenders agaius, persons or property
twenty years agl was l67,yls. Ten
years later lEo number was lJB, 9Ol and
tn lsO2.93 only 10000, decrease MI
the more marked " lAo increase OF
population uuriHx tile same period l.
taken into consideration.
Onpus8s embracing cruelty to AMI.
mails, drunkenness, sanitary aud hy.
giralc rulcs are always large Rui such
crimes ale moEo c.uso'y looked after,
auI There - natural expectation that
tho iugrrain IN tho number u Buch
ril.asrs would be large; ON tho c.a-
iGNry, tho inurca Is only % Z above
the record o. ton year. aro, but ~ the
populaii0l has iuc'gEgsd ~ Yer cent
there Is real decrease II ~ per cent.
This orlWinal class "knUwu to tie
police" Including those At large IA
we'll rs In confinement, snow de.
crease In nuub0r Of $1,000 u 10000.
Those At lsrgo numbered Ia lssl,
as $50, In 1889, 80, IN 1891, 20, ass,
Ia ls02, .0,s.j, LJndon itself maEius
tue lost showing; thus In every 100000
persons there were "kBown 10 tho
| police 10 IN London, 90 In provincial
cities and u In the country. Tho
Morning Ioa, Of August 2sth, 1894,
says: "fhe nuaTchisls. annoyed by
the surveillance Of the police, are lcay-
log London aud settling In the pro-
vinoisl cllies.n
llouros q bad rcpute decreased Ia
number In lligco years from g,Gss to
1850. Juvenile Offenders, those under
10 years OF age, numbered 10000 Ia
! labs.b9. This figure has fallen steadily
until 1000 Ia tue last record. la every
100000 Of population there were a.
| Juvenile offenders IN lsBsls7O against
70 In 1898, decrease Of ~ por cent.
1t must be remembered that this de.
crease 10 not uuU TO any change In the
naturalization Of the laws or TO re-.
taxation Of their flgidity. On the con.
trafy the laws have been made more
stringent, and tho number VI arrests
tor every hundred crimes shows that
tho execution OF tho laws Ia more thor
ough; for Ia lssG.lssI there were - 10
% arrests tor every hundred crimes,
ami In lS92lsO3 there were iG.s At
rests. Meantime the number OF police
has been greatly increased, and the
eSpense ON this account Is now
22.3 per cent larger than In
1856. In the same way the
laws Rgainbi intemperanoe, against
cruelty to children anu against truaucy
are ore rigidly enforced; In 1891 there
were 90, BOl arrests and 6G,67s ptosccu.
tious ior violation OF the school laws.
II IL further claimed that divorces
and cases oi bankruptcy have similarly
decreased IN the period mentioned.
A writer In the Independent, from
which Journal the above figures are
ioupwed claims tina, In this 10 to be
seen tho result OF the work OF the
SlcIety fort Prevention Of Cruelty
70 CHgdgsn NJ well NJ Of the
moral aud religious training
% the young in the schools. Ana d,
Is not Improbable that this claim b.
we'll funded, Every domorslizst
enid becomes Ia liuc menace 10 ~.
sicily, and the brutality to which many
No tnar y.aJh aIesuu! ,g.sd in"homes"
,Asl hardly dss'ryo ,uo name, the Owl
Influences uulsswh.ch t,cy are reared
His seeds tuatHt last ,'psa into crime,
q Ysti .ls descriptions .0rdiug to the
nreatuuy lardscgg " tAo cn.lI. The
.es,ol gpaveg "a ~ .Eras figures h tb4
,ho prourr ui 'nr ui 500 children is
.o' tho m..t lm.arap. matters 10
which Rtfg.ouga girs 10 Attention,