CRIMES CHECKED AMONG THE BOYS
The imprisonment, of males, for offenses which boys are likely to commit, though not so encouraging as with the girls, shows that juvenile crime is fairly under control in this city. Thus, "Vagrancy" must include many of the crimes of boys; under this head we find the following commitments of males:—
1859……….2,829 1860……….2,708 1862……….1,203 1864……….1,147 1865……….1,350 1870……….1,140 1871…………984
In twelve years a reduction from 2,829 to 994, when the natural increase should have been up to 3,225.
Petty larceny is a boy's crime; the record stands thus for males:—
1857……….2,450 1859……….2,626 1860……….2,575 1865……….2,347 1869……….2,338 1870……….2,168 1871……….1,978
A decrease in fourteen years of 502, when the natural increase should have brought the number to 2,861.
Of boys under fifteen imprisoned, the record stands thus since the new classification:—
1864……….1,965 1865……….1,934 1869……….1,873 1870……….1,625 1871……….1,017
Of males between fifteen and twenty, in our city prisons, the following is the record:—