Juvenile depravity ... / By Rev. Henry Worsley.

  • Worsley, Henry, 1820-1893.
Date:
1849
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    crime falls is between 15 and 20 years of age. The sum of crime committed at that period to the sum total is, 6236 to 25,107. Its proportion, therefore, is very nearly one-fourth of the whole. The centesimal proportion of that period of life is only 9*9, i.e., not quite one-tenth. In other words, the juveniles, “ aged 15 and under 20/' form not quite one-tenth of the population, but they are guilty of nearly one-fourth of its crime. What more striking exhibition can there be, than is thus afforded, of the lamentable mass of juvenile depravity ! But, 2ndly, The number of juvenile offenders has gra¬ dually and progressively increased. Centesimal proportion of Of¬ fenders in . 1842. 1843. 1844. 1845. 1846. Aged under 15 years . . 5 3 5-7 60 64 65 15 55 20 5’ • 22-0 22-7 23 3 24-1 24-5 20 55 25 55 • 24-7 24-3 24-1 242 23-3 25 55 30 55 • 15-3 14-9 14-9 14-3 14-6 30 55 40 55 16-8 164 15-3 15 6 15 8 40 55 50 55 8-3 8-1 8-3 82 8-4 50 55 60 55 3-8 3-5 39 3-6 3-4 60 years an d above . 1 8 1 9 2 0 1 7 1-8 Age not ascertained . . 20 2-5 2-2 19 1-7 This table is extracted from the same C£ Blue Book” as the preceding, and is headed with this observation “ The following calculations mark the recurrence from year to year of the increased proportion of the offenders under 15 years of age, and of those e aged 15 and under 20/ — those, in fact, who are commencing a criminal course.” It will appear from this table, that the sum of offenders under 20 years of age has been, during the last five years, considerably more than one-fourth of the whole number ; and that the year last past, it