CHAPTER XXXVI.
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