Youth and Crime in Paris

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 25, 1889

Youth and Crime in Paris

If the world is growing better, it ought to be manifest among the youth. From them are to come the society of the future. But the outlook is a hopeless one indeed, for the betterment of society, if the following from the Daily News of London is indicative of society generally. Paris is not much wickeder than other cities:—

"Of 26,000 criminals arrested in Paris in the course of the year—the figure itself seems incredibly large—16,000 had not attained the age of twenty. There is just now an epidemic of crimes of violence perpetrated by young men; and if the thieves and assassins at present confined in French prisons, were sorted according to their age, it would be found that the very large majority were made up of youths between sixteen and twenty."