Third Article in Series "Hong Kong Today" by Cai Fang: Juvenile Deliquency and H K Culture
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We read quite a large number of Hong Kong newspapers and magazines. We also listen to radio broadcasts and see movies from Hong Kong. We are liberally treated to "social.. news"
on robbery, murder, theft, fraud, fighting, rape, suicide and so forth. Such "social news", accompanied by "bloody" pictures presents things in vivid colors. It is really "complete with pictures, words and sound." What happens in the media has become the order of the day so we have some- times been "blind to it." However, these crimes are increasingly occurring among youths and juveniles, especially middle and primary school students. This calls for our concern and attention.
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According to data recently published by the authorities,. a total of 3,853 juveniles, from ages 7 to 15, were arrested in 1980 on such charges as robbery, theft, rape, assault and so forth, 1,212 morethan in the preceding year and 2,256 more than in 1978 representing a sharp increase. Most shocking is that of the 3,800 plus juvenile delinquents arrested in 1980, students in school represented 2,307 or 59.9 percent of the total.
SURIDE
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At a time when people were busy discussing the increas- ingly serious problem of juvenile delinquency, a tragedy happened on the afternoon of 2 May, as two female students on Hong Kong Island plunged to their deaths from the 26th floor of a building. Such shocking news never heard before burst on the scene like a bombsheli. It was said that these girls aged 13 and 14 respectively were Form-2 students. In a note left behind they gave the reasons for their suicides as "too great pressure" and "not willing to suffer in this world. This tragedy tells
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people from another angle how seriously affected the youths and juveniles of Hong Kong are by the influence of strange "culture."
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