Chapter XVII: (a) a Short Sketch of the Movement of Crime

SINCE 1872: (B) THE WAR 1914-18. 216

(A) Classification of offences proceeded against in Criminal Courts.
Fall in serious crime since 1871. Decrease of non-indictable offences
of a criminal nature. Statistics of non-criminal offences. Prison
Population, statistics since 1881. Decrease in total number of sentences
to Penal Servitude. Great decrease in prisoners under 21 years
of age. Statistics of recidivism. Petty Recidivism and vagrants
and mentally defective persons in prisons.

(B) Prison statistics during the War: the effect of the Criminal Justice
Administration Act, 1914, and payment of fines. Statistics of the
decrease in various offences. The effect of the Central Control Board
(Liquor Traffic) and committals for Drunkenness. The great fall in
Vagrancy. Criminal statistics in times of industrial prosperity and
distress. Closing of penal institutions during the War. Statistics of
charges tried and proceeded against. The maintenance in the future
of the present low criminal population.

Appendix:--

(a) Regulations &c., for Borstal Institutions. 231
(b) " " Preventive Detention Prisons. 265

Index 268