Wednesday, September 26, 1973
INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT ON SOCIAL CAUSES OF CRIME
Committee Concludes No Single Factor Wholly Responsible For Crime
The provision of adequate post-primary education facilities and
effective social services will, in the long term, reduce the potential
for crime.
This is the view of the government's special sub-committee set
up to consider the social causes of crime.
The interim progress report of the committee, which is published
today, considers that children of school age who are not attending school
were more open to temptation to commit crime. This is particularly
the case within the 12-14 age group who fail to go on to secondary schools.
These children are debarred from working in factories under
existing labour legislation and their leisure renders them more susceptible
to criminal influence," the report adds.
The sub-committee also draws the government's attention to the
"important relationship" between corruption and other forms of crime.
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The report says that while the sub-committee does not endorse the
"sweeping statements" made by some of the respondents from the general
public, which it said were based on impressions rather than facts, the
sub-committee shares their view that "corruption perpetuates the existence
of vice and organised crime, erodes respect for authority and perversely
influences the minds of the young."
The sub-committee .....................
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