Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Youthful Criminals in Germany. [ARTICLE]

Youthful Criminals in Germany.

A German paper states that ire consequence of the considerable increase in the ntimber of youthful criminals in Germany between twelve and eighteen years of age, the imperial ministry of the interiorof Berlin is contemplating the reorganization, of the compulsory education system. The government has in view the imitation of English institutions. All the German laws have the great fault that the interference of the authorities is permitted only when s child* has committed some crime, but they give no handle against morally debased children who are still free from crime. The number of youthful criminals has risen from 42,>40 U 46,408—that is, ten per cent. — in one* year.— (London News