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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1990

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MATERIALS

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FOR EXAMPLE, POSSESSION OF PORNOGRAPHIC INVOLVEMENT IN SEX OFFENCES DROPPED FROM 1,298 (8.6 PER CENT) AND (1.5 PER CENT) IN 1987-88 TO 958 (6.3 PER CENT) AND 136 (0.9 PER CENT)

IN THE LATEST FINDINGS, " THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

HE ADDED THAT THERE WAS A SLIGHT DROP IN SUSPECTED INVOLVEMENT IN TRIAD ACTIVITIES, AND

INCIDENTS OF INTIMIDATION SUCH BLACKMAIL AT 620 (4.1 PER CENT) AND 770 (FIVE PER CENT) IN THE

AS FINDINGS, COMPARED TO 637 (4.2 PER CENT) AND 802

LATEST THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

CENT) IN

(5.3 PER

BEHAVIOUR,

REMAINED THE

THEY WERK (IN

DESCENDING

THE THREE MORE COMMON CATEGORIES OF DELINQUENT REPRESENTING ABOUT 83 PER CENT OF ALL SUCH INCIDENTS, SAME AS INDICATED IN THE PREVIOUS SURVEY. ORDER OF FREQUENCY):

ACTS OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE (5,650);

STEALING (3,947); AND

INVOLVEMENT IN GAMBLING (3,089).

AS IN PREVIOUS SURVEYS, THERE WAS A HIGHER PROPORTION SCHOOLBOYS INVOLVED IN UNRULY AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR THAN WITH THE FORMER RANGING FROM 10.1 PER CENT TO 13.8 PER CENT LATTER FROM 4.5 PER CENT TO 6.5 PER CENT ONLY.

OF GIRLS. AND THE

SLIGHTLY

PER

THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF INCIDENTS PER STUDENT WAS ALSO HIGHER FOR BOYS (FROM 1.8 TO TWO PER CENT) THAN GIRLS (1.6 TO 1.9 CENT) AND, AS A PERCENTAGE OF ALL STUDENTS INVOLVED, THE PROPORTION OF BOYS AND GIRLS STOOD AT 70 PER CENT AND 30 PER CENT.

RELATIVE

SCHOOL,

GIRLS OUTNUMBERED BOYS IN BEING HABITUALLY LATE TO PLAYING TRUANT AND FOR ACTS OF DISHONESTY SUCH AS CHEATING BUT DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR SUCH AS INSOLENT OR REBELLIOUS BEHAVIOUR, DISCIPLINARY OFFENCES TO ATTRACT ATTENTION AND REGULAR USE OF LANGUAGE WERE MORE COMMON AMONG BOYS.

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THE SURVEY FINDINGS ALSO SHOWED THAT:

THE MAJORITY OF BOYS AND GIRLS INVOLVED WERE AGED FROM 13 TO 16;

THE INVOLVEMENT RATIO FOR STUDENTS AGED 13 HIGHEST; AND

ΤΟ 15 WAS THE

* MOST STUDENTS WERE FROM SECONDARY 1 1 ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF THE TOTAL.

TO

3.

ACCOUNTING FOR

SCHOOLS,

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE SURVEY, INITIATED BY THE COMMITTEE ON UNRULY AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR IN SEVENTH SINCE 1982.

STANDING WAS THE

/"THE MAIN