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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1989

ON THE NUMBER OF INCIDENTS INVOLVING 1987-88, THE SPOKESMAN SAID A TOTAL OF REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 14.1 PER CENT FROM

WITH 1986-87.

DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR IN 15,043 WERE REGISTERED, 13. 186 WHEN COMPARED

THE SURVEY INDICATED THAT AS IN THE PREVIOUS SURVEY THE THREE MORE COMMON CATEGORIES, NAMELY ACTS OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, STEALING AND INVOLVEMENT IN GAMBLING COMPRISED SOME 80 PER CENT OF ALL THE INCIDENTS OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR.

APART FROM INVOLVEMENT IN GAMBLING, SUSPECTED INVOLVEMENT IN

OR MORE TRIAD ACTIVITIES. AND CONVICTION OF ONE

CRIMES, ALL OTHER REPORTED TYPES OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR WERE

TO HAVE INCREASED IN 1987-88 AS COMPARED WITH 1986-87.

IN

1987-881

SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN BOTH THE POSSESSION OF PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS (FROM 664 IN 1986-87 TO AND INVOLVEMENT IN SEX OFFENCES (FROM 126 TO 219), THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

1,298

NUMBER OF INCIDENTS OF STILL LOWER THAN THAT IN

THE HOWEVER, THE SURVEY SHOWED THAT FOSSESSION OF PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS WAS 1984-85 (1,501).

1.5 PER

WAS AT A

LOW NUMBER OF

THE NUMBER OF INCIDENTS INVOLVING SEX OFFENCES LEVEL AND REPRESENTED ONLY

CENT OF THE TOTAL INCIDENTS OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR.

ON THE FIGURES FOR UNRULY BEHAVIOUR. THE SPOKESMAN

WAS A 15.8 PER CENT INCREASE FROM 1987-88.

169,339 IN

ΤΟ 1986-87

SAID THERE 196,108 IN

CENT

OF THE VARIOUS TYPES OF UNRULY BEHAVIOUR REPORTED, 72 PER OF ALL SUCH INCIDENTS INVOLVED THE HABITUAL FAILURE ΤΟ HAND IN

TO SCHOOLS ASSIGNMENTS OR BRING TEXTBOOKS OR STATIONERY

(65,442

IN 1987-88), HABITUAL LATENESS (33,055), DISCIPLINARY OFFENCES TO ATTRACT ATTENTION (21,187) AND INSOLENT OR REBELLIOUS BEHAVIOUR (20,848).

AND

TURNING TO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF 211,151 INCIDENTS OF UNRULY

1987-88, DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR REPORTED IN

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THIS REPRESENTED AN INCREASE OF 15.7 PER CENT OVER

INCIDENTS 182,525 REPORTED IN 1986-87.

THE

THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE INCIDENTS REPORTED. ACCOUNTING FOR 93 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL, WERE IN THE LESS SERIOUS CATEGORY OF

PER 17

CENT) WERE IN BEHAVIOUR, WHILE ONLY A SERIOUS CATEGORY OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR, THE SAME PREVIOUS SURVEYS.

MINORITY

UNRULY THE MORE LEVEL AS IN THE

TO

3.

IN

PRONE

TO

THE SURVEY ALSO SHOWED THAT STUDENTS IN SECONDARY 1

REMAINED THE GROUP PARTICULAR THOSE IN SECONDARY 1,

MOST COMMITTING UNRULY AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR.

THE SPOKESMAN