Crime’s Alarming Increase in Britain

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1877

Crime’s Alarming Increase in Britain

Blackwood’s Magazine states as follows: “For the past seventy years crime has increased in England, seven hundred per cent. In Ireland, eight hundred per cent; and in Scotland, three thousand six hundred per cent; while the entire population within this period has increased but sixty-five per cent! This certainly shows progress in immorality. It has been estimated, also, that England has one hundred thousand professional thieves and suspected persons, and four hundred thousand prostitutes! and that the cost of crime is fifty times more than that expended for religion.