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by OSBERT LANCASTER

"I've been wondering, Mrs. Macpherson, hold the Americans would like it is. you and I were to turn up In New York marquerading as Ziegfeld Follies playing """་ -

saxophones.”

WHERE

Why do so many people take to crime? Born Wrong? Bred Wrong? Or Punished Wrong?

RIME is increasing in England, of that there can unfortun

ately be no doubt.

By MARGERY FRY

How much is the increase? than convictions, to which No ono can tell with ac they bear a varying ratio, curacy. Convictions have have also gone up very risen since 1938 for every seriously since before the age-group of the popula war. The number of offences tion. Crimes known to the not known to the police no course one can calculate; but every. police, always of much more numerous indication is that they are very frequent and probably also growing more so,

THE YOUNG PRINCE GETS HIS MONEY PARLIAMENT is soon to since that time it has

Since that time it has leased

Why

definition of Moreover, our crime is, as inadequate, as our knowledge: "an act punishable by law as being forbidden by statute.or injurious to the public welfare" mys the dictionary, but adds in brackets "(commonly used only of grave offences)."

And who shall interpret what and "grave" mentis? "Breaking. entering" sounds grave enough, yet thirty-five percent of these offences In 1950 were the mis- chief of children under four- The Duchy regards the task of teen, whose loot would often be the salaries paid to the collecting dues from private fee-worth no more than the ball of Royal Family,

ercam sellers and other trades string that a respected eltizen as too big a task. A few days may cheerfully and permanent- ago the black leg of the Duchy by borrow from the office where

10 gold coins, he works. which bears simppaced to bo

the ransom

One thing is already sure. The allowance for Prince Charles will be paid out of the huge revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Blondin pald for the freedom

Law-breaking

is

but

one

"The study of the causes of crime has im portance in the whole realm of human rela- tions," writes Miss: Fry. Social conditions may make crime · greater.........or less, but they also play upon different degrees of "vulnerability" among the people. "There is no doubt that the absence of an affectionate, secure home life is a main cause of de- Hnquency and crime."

an

Miss Fry bears historic name in English philanthropy. In the course of a long, 'distin tinguished career of academic and social ser- vice, she was Principal of Somerville College, Ox ford, from 1926 to 1931, Hon. Secretary of the Howard League for Penal Reform, and a Governor of the B.B.C.-

women

had struggled with, raises in each of us the doubt whether in such circumstances we should not have falled too All were "having trouble with their husbands, many were. living in condemned houses or cares furniture and particularly leaky Nissen huts: "in nearly pl bedding. were woefully In- adequate."

A nation's criminality is in fluenced by many things: by the effciency of its Justice and its police, the extent to which its laws are in tune with the general standard of morals, the tradi❤

Many of these women, despite tions of the people in such their usually poor intelligence, natters as the carrying of wear can be helped to better things, pons and of vendetta, such and it is good to know that social matters as housing, scar- special provision for their... 10- elty or abundance of ́consumers' training is now being made by

the Prison Commissioni. . Coods, education, alcoholism,

unemployment, habits of In- The other form of crucity to curance, use of motors-all these children, deliberato, sadisile Ju in greater or less degree go to treatment, rightly horrifying to the make-up of the "weather" the public contelence, has as yet. not been made, as it surely in which offences multiply or should be; the subject of any dwindle.

special inquiry. It la

extremely

Ingrobable that the type of mak

In the other group of factors, or woman capable of this crime, there can hardly be such sudden will have auclerit forethought alterations. People do not bo- and self-control, to be checked corne Bocially or anti-socially by the mere fear of heavier inclined as rapidly as they be penalties, y come employed or unemployed,

the

or as police forces, may lose or Do these offenders, perhaps,"" gain in men. What we have to belong to the type which has study rather is the make-up of lately emerged into publicity: groups who are liable to and which is going to raise the break out in law-breaking under most puzzling questions as to personal or social stress.

the boundary between individual *treedom and public mety? A

Last year the profits from Palace Buckingham needs of other people, spreads can ability. There are many people Danger signals,

·

that

OR several years now the of the living functioning

individuals,

It is becoming customary to lay emphasis upon his. vulnCT- of Richard Lion Heart, flew aspect of anti-social behaviour over the splendid while build-which, failing to respect the

who, If all goes well, with good surroundings, good companions, loss and suffering over a ter This is the beadquarters of wider area than the law could in 1945, have shown a sudden good fortune, may never come this estate, which owns 170

protect. The jealousy farms, many manors, entire the Duchy, and the new Queen ever

till 1947, but are, nevertheless, "bad risks" of its electric activity. These or continued parishes, puba, hotels, post was presiding over the Duchy which lies behind some fifty or drop in 1940, either maintained into conflict with the law, who brain has been studied by tractats which meets about sixty murders in a year spils followed by a sharp rise in 1948, from the criminal point of view. graphs seem to leave no doubt offices, banks, shops, and Un Council,

To say they are all bad people that. there are mines amounted to 284,000. twice a year,

would be grossly, unfair.',

physically and even intellectual Tho year before they were THREE FEATHERS

ly mature, showing the emotion No one can judge of the in- al traits of childhood, and somes. £102,000, and the year before that £99,000. All this money

ward struggles of another, and times the instability, of latent. it is possible' that' many · who epilepsy. And these are wont towards meeting the Civil

fall have still put up a braver diagnosed, not by the impres List payments to the Monarch.

fight than is demanded of their glong of an observer, but by the It is expected that as much

more fortunate neighbours. Nur objective: product of a machine. as a quarter will now be paid for five maintenance of Prince Charles and to start a savings arcourt for the day when he

win marzy -

BUT POWERFUL

Not only is the Duchy Wealthy -perhaps the rarest of all this country's great estates-but it is powerful.

It is superior to Acts of Parliament, It is not ruled by the Inwa of rent restriction, local government housing and town planning. It is not even Habla to pay rates.

S upholding these rights, the Couneli of the Duchy observes the law voluntarily It makes ex-gratia payments to cover the rates it should 'pay."

Most of the 130,000 acres #t

the magnificent council roum the three-feather badge of the eldest son of the Monarch is interwoven in the carpet. It

hundreds of lives for one it destroys; the determination to have a good time at all costs is fulfilled, not only at the cost of

of home law-breaking, but breaking.

to a point above that of 10457

When we are dealing with large numbers we cannot postu- late mass variations in the moral character; we have rather to as sume that changes of environ-

in the scrollwork of the high Roots of crime ment, of what one might call

celling.

Without cerEMOTY

and with-

"temptation weather," produce must we, in labelling them as

"bad Hake, forget the possi these behaviour variations.

bility of strengthening and out fuss, Prince Charles became

In fact the amount of crime purifying the character, which

in anyone. the owner of this huge enter TN fact the study of the causes prise. As the eldest son he of crime has importance in the automatically became the Duke whole realm of human relations. of

Cornwall, following in the This study has now been follow in any country at any time de- we dare not deny steps of the man who was later ed in various ways for a fair pends on two groups of factors, timber of years, but the fluctus which we may conveniently coll

and "roots," "climate" to to Duke of Windsor.

tions of crime still baße us..

vigorous stock of weeds are fine inheritance. the Duchy owned Never has

Why, for instance, should all worse nuisance In some years land

been or more

the age-groups of boys be- than in others, and the anti- flourishing.

tween eight and sixteen, after social elements of a population Robert Glenton high rate of indictable offences give varying amounts of trouble,

It

19 Q

moro

Wives nag-so husbands

tests fail health

controls and, in the West DOCTOR FINDS THAT JUST A MEMORY

Country, but there are 78 acres in London.

The Duchy owns the Oval. home-ground of Surrey's cricket, warehouse and wharves, blocka of flats and houses. Until 1022 it owned Lambeth-walk.

TOWN SOLD

OF A ROW RAISES BLOOD-PRESSURE

UNDREDS of healthy HUNDREDS been refused insurance policies on medi-

All the Scilly Isles belonged cal grounds because they

doctor

to the Duchy until two years were thinking about their ago, when it sold a whole town nagging wives or bullying

Hugh Town, the capital, in

the bosses while St. Mary's, the main island.

The Duchy is always reluctant was examining them.

sell ก

Ja. does not Tests by Dr John Hambling - speculate.

have provod that much Why, then, did it sell Hugi turbing thoughts can raise the Town? An awkward situation blood-pressure for

developing. The town level at which insurance com- council, according to the law, panies rate a man a poor risk. was the local planning authority.

was

But in fact it had no power

dis..

shove the

The chart shows how blood..

on Duchy tand. To avoid thisure soared and stumped as 60-year-old man talked over contretemps the Duchy cold out his intimate private affairs with Since the war, however, the Dr Hambling at St. Bartholo Duchy has added considerably mew's Hospital, London.

Hs moinland.

to

form

on the acreage

His blood-pressure racketed in

CHAPMAN

SPINCHER

COLUMN

Artie's nag-chart

10

TIME: IN

"MINUTES

a medicat

thought, and

of

"Bad Risks"

Et is yet too soon to know which abnormal records of this cort are danger signals, but that there is some connection be tween the retarted brain deve lopment and prime is rendered almost certain by the frequency with which its sign-manual-LANG found-

amongst the EEG

Amongst ninety-four a "bad risks." "When juvenile, derers. HERE are two instances of (as they are called) of mur

forty-four examined, rapidly under the strain of the showed abnormal records, delinquency in Bristol increased men charged with murder who city's terrible blitz it was found

were

an ordinary “un- crowd. nita Kör

that the Increase was mainly whereas in amongst the mentally sub selected normal children. They just would have been about the ex could not stand up to the ten pected average. sion under which they suddenly had to live.

Far more research will be needed before we can guess tho in a study of habitual extent and influence of this pos

sible root of crime.. Once more, Dr Norval Morris

1.is rather "vulnerability" than found a group of thirteen men an inescapable cause that must who had apparently "gone generally be expected. straight" through, all the turbu- lence of youth and 'fall- Into

Some of the risks" here, dis

But

crime between thirty and forty cursed are probably inborn or

result of accident, In ten out of the

Thirteen cases,

common sense is in finding unemployment, the root of much criminal bes prolonged

or desertion haviour in early training. Many separation by death from wife or mistress-some and valuable studies of the break-up of their private lives-ditions making for delinquency led them, in some cases by the in childhood have been made. rond of drunkenness, to- prison.

.

though many

cop=

Misfortune was the arrow which But it must be remembered that, criminals have found the Achilles heel.

begun their career eturly, there at a great many more naughty These vulnerabilities or to children who grow up into per continue the metaphor of weeds fectly respectable citizens.

these "roots" of crime in in- !

dividual citizens will the Potent causes

duce their full nulsanco-value only in favourable circumstances, and it is usually possible to THERE is no doubt whatever study them only amongst actual that the absence of lan offenders. A number of such affectionate, secure home life t Inquiries have lately been, a main cause of delinquency and undertaken.

crime. Neurotie unstable or unloving parents and step- In the sinds just referred to, parents are very frequently sien, "The Hobitual Criminal," by: behind the young offendor, “The Norval Morris, we get a detailed tragedy, in that they themselves, picture" of society's dallures; too often had the kind of home. whether they were born whung, they are reproducing. The dis", brod wrong, or punished wrong ruption of family life by the it is now hard to say......

war, and the impossibility of satisfactory homes in our

They are, as a group, well be sont housing conditions pro

Arite interprets the doctor's, case- There must be hundreds, In the old days, history, had the first five minutes while ho book Endings to show how a patient's healthy men needlessly nursing little good to say about the talked about his bad-tempered thoughts can affect 'Duchy. It was described wife. When he mentioned his amination. Memory of a nagying their arteries because they hap-low the normal in health. Un probably amongst the most pened to be nursing a grievance fortunately no intelligence-tests potent causes of our heavy dead weight on the land"suck-mother, who always mada a big and UP poes the blood-pure.

when they went to see the were taken so we do not know bown comes to near-normal. out the revenue and giving fuss of him, it fell to near- plent childhood

doctor in the hope of raising how far they are also mentally crime-lists today. normal. Then it soared again as nothing, in return."

sub-normal.

Some recent research upon They certainly

conditions which may roster Queen Victoria soon as the talk switched back jump alarmingly if he dislikes money to buy a home.

this is probably im-un-sock characters is of when

seem-and the doctor examining him. to the throno #reat to his marriage.

portant to be far below the These reforms were made.

Fear of the result of tho continue today

Check-up may also push the above the normal

But

camo

NO CRITICS

HEALTHY

LEFT, RIGHT

Loss

In their capacity for special interest as tending to Hea of human affection. show that thes

to pociety

A

third of those mately bind us, which ulti- THE MORE you exercise | studiod handers or mistress to from the cherishing for? After thoroughly examining level. : the man Dr Hambling was con

of deep-seated your left arm becomes, Medical Bo

"your right arm, thạ stronger home to Leutne of them'had affectión. Ez begintili

mother-child relation, and that fixed abode but wandered Most of the

tenants of the vinced that he was healthy. Any form

doctor Ho | 20:

from

common lodging to cheap this in its tum may be stunted Duchy extol. their landlords, Yet an Insurance company had resentment or apprehension, Research Counell

may cause the small arteries to ward Darons has discovered..

very early Criticism is rare. There are turned him down.

have hotels and back again, always on and thwarted at a contrant, De Hambling explains Weight-lifting tests have exceptioris. In 1939 a Judge

The blood-pressure of a 46- in a research report This proved that strengthening one the run, with no family re- age by prolonged separation or Inadequate care. Perhaps wo shall learn to say that criminals I venture to hope that they year-old business man leaped automatically heightens blood limb automatically increases the ionship whatsoever,

are formed in the enaternity. remarks) will lead the above danger mark as soon as pressure by increasing the ro power of the other as well.

ward! legal advisers of the Duchy to he thought about his mother sistance of the arteries to the

1-low.

blood-flow. consider carefully the Duchy's

Ling paid-

thi

claim to the whole of the fores A third patients showed Dr Hambling now doubts any shore of Cornwall 198 against symptoms of chronically, high diagnosis of high blood- the King and his other subjects, blood-pressure simply because pressure based on blood-pros and will cause the Duchy office his boss had persistently failed sure readings alone.

protice

sof

other

to abanders its present predatory to keep his promise of a chan ··HOPIOITATands doctors to OWA In a fourth case a man's high probe into the private lives of people's propertyyppige

fell to normal blood-pressure patients for pos- and coatuo the conatal owners to blood-pressuro resist unauthorled invasion

of after ho. bad beaten up his sible mental causes, J. their rights? Vaata

brother-in-law, whom ba-do-

"The Duchy: ofles was angry/ tested. It pointed out that its claim to

the whobs of the Cornisby' tore

So a blacksmith, who invari- ably uses, his right arm” for hammocing, could hit the anvil almost as hard with his lott

**EQUALS:

Child neglect

Finally, let us note how hardly the absc

absence of, even a faulty-

ANOTHER group of offenders. home life presses on the filegiile

who might well, In favour mate child. There seems to bo-

like an hereditary able circumstances, have scrap something od through without a court institution class the institution

brod whose

mother produce the child charge, are the women LIKE the story of the eglect of their children is he who com gritts back into palle Welsh farmer who when to amount to cruelty,

Ho care. Acensus ock naked why he allowed his pigs

pon population giving" detallang, Relief of emotional tension to wakite, about the Elichea, A sympathetic study by the early nurture would reveal how criminals-bayo ti nevez will often bring about more solemnly replied: "Doga is in- Governor of Holloway Prison of many

then ferior to many data le superior, || the conditions which these betri, wanted-etxxcepti/by: KINE

1. but plas la.

Ignorant- and offen defective poličet

The now findings, also show dramatic improvements that 'n paan's blood pivanure, can druges he cinline,: