Two Prize Essays on Juvenile Delinquency |
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Author:
| Hill, Micaiah |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-94605-6 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $22.63 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ubiquity of ragruuU. The following will illustrate the organized system pursued, and suggest the necessity of the stringent measures required for the suppression of this social evil and national stigma. The table is compiled from the First Report of the Constabulary Force Commissioners: ?...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ubiquity of ragruuU. The following will illustrate the organized system pursued, and suggest the necessity of the stringent measures required for the suppression of this social evil and national stigma. The table is compiled from the First Report of the Constabulary Force Commissioners: ? Names.Number.Average No. 22111 1676 697Daily Bath14yr lodpers in1837. 'Hull1131 each house. Newcastle-upon-Tyne33 Orphanage. According to the same report, there were in Chelmsford several lodging-houses, where it was estimated that about 2,000 vagrants resorted. In Chester there were from 150 to 200 of these receptacles. Though the houses in Chelmsford are small, yet as many as thirty travellers, or even thirty-five, have been found in one house; fifteen have been found sleeping in one room, three or four in a bed, men, women, and children, promiscuously; beds have been found occupied in a cellar. The lodging- houses at Chelmsford are made the centre of a kind of circuit, which the people make almost periodically. Generally speaking, they are the flash-house of the small district; the receiving-house for stolen goods, the most extensively established school for juvenile delinquency, and commonly the most infamous of houses in the locality. No one can refuse assent to the opinion expressed by the Commissioners? That it is manifest that in any efficient arrangement for the prevention of crime within the rural districts, the means of suppressing or controlling the common lodging-houses must have a prominent place. 6. Orphanage must be next specified as one of the ac- cessory causes of juvenile depravity. This source of destitution and fountain of crime is, perhaps, the only one in which parents are not chargeable with guilt. But the calamity is retrievable, and its trib...