Chapter XXXVI
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DECREASE OF JUVENILE CRIME—COST OF PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT.
Instance of the Three Brothers in the Newsboys' Lodging-house—The Damage Inflicted by One on the Community—The Gain brought by the Labor of the Others—Cost of Our Criminals last Year—Amount of Property Taken—Expenses of Prevention—Average Cost of each Child in our Industrial Schools—In our Lodging-houses—And when sent to the West—Number Provided for in the Country—Crime Checked—Commitments of Female Vagrants—Arrests of Female Vagrants—Commitments for Thieving—For "Juvenile Delinquency"—Number of Girls under Fifteen Years Old Imprisoned—Great Decrease of Crime among Girls—Crime Checked among Boys—Commitment of Boys for Vagrancy—For Petit Larceny—Number of Boys under Fifteen Years Old Imprisoned—Number between Fifteen and Twenty—Arrests of Pickpockets—Of Petty Thieves—Of Girls under Twenty—Estimate of Money Saved in One Year by Reduction of Commitments………………………………………….pp. 429-439