Chapter XXXVI

DECREASE OF JUVENILE CRIME--COST OF PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT.

Instance of the Three Brothers in the Newsboys' Lodging-house--The Damage Inflicted by One on the Community--The Gain brought by the Labor of the Others--Cost of Our Criminals last Year--Amount of Property Taken--Expenses of Prevention--Average Cost of each Child in our Industrial Schools--In our Lodging-houses--And when sent to the West--Number Provided for in the Country--Crime Checked--Commitments of Female Vagrants--Arrests of Female Vagrants--Commitments for Thieving--For "Juvenile Delinquency"--Number of Girls under Fifteen Years Old Imprisoned--Great Decrease of Crime among Girls--Crime Checked among Boys--Commitment of Boys for Vagrancy--For Petit Larceny--Number of Boys under Fifteen Years Old Imprisoned--Number between Fifteen and Twenty--Arrests of Pickpockets--Of Petty Thieves--Of Girls under Twenty--Estimate of Money Saved in One Year by Reduction of Commitments.................................................pp. 429-439