Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1899 — Crime in England. [ARTICLE]

Crime in England.

The British Home Office report for 1897 shows that while serious crimes tend to diminish in England, there is a great increase of minor offenses. By far the larger number of criminals convicted during the year have been convicted of some crime before—a fact that led the Home Office to conclude “that neither penal servitude nor imprisonment serves to deter the habitual offender from reverting to crime, and it is the habitual offender who forms the bulk of the prison population.”