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. HritenA «© ee _erimes, but for murders and manslaughters, those persons convicted for these 7 my, oo a - 10 - the United States. We can tell the day and the month that burglaries will reach their peak in any city and we can toll the same thing about robberies. - - Our study revesled further that women are no problem in crime in our country since only 7.39 of all persons arrested in the United States last year were women. However, our Study revealed also, in this connection, that 50% more women proportionately were arrested for criminal homicides last year in ti-2 United States than were men, Possibly tre greatest single crime problem in the United States to- day is that of the jJovenile criminal: During the calendar year 1936. we ex- amined all of the arrest records cent in to us from all over the United States for-every type of crime from murder on down. We examined 461,589 snch arrest records and found that of that number 80,358, a percentage of 17.4, or in round numbers, tnat more than one out of six persons arrested in the Unéted States during 1956 For every crime from murder on down were boys and girls under twenty-one years of age. This is an absolutely disproportionate per- centage end, as I say, probably the biggest single crime probiem in Amel ica today. The. majority of these youngsters were not arrested for childish pranks cr petty misdemeanors, for our study shows that 743 were arrested for crim- inal homicide; 1229 Tor rape; 3508 for robbery; 3012 for assault: 11,599 for burglary; 14,952 for larceny; and 5472 for the specific crime of stealing automobiles. In short, more than 60% of the youngsters arrested in my coun- try last year were arrested for the more serious types of crime. We tell the good citizens of the United States that the responsi- pility for steering these youngsters away. from crime is theirs and suggest that they should be good parents, pointing out that our study has convinced we wise Whee ae Wee est Maar Mekal y us that the.child brougha up in “uhe proper home environment, given the proper “parental care and control, doesn't ordinarily” turn to a life of crime. ~ WS point out, ‘senond, that these same good citizens should see to it that their children are properly educated. explaining that by proper edu- cation we mean more than tesehing the youngsters pages one te three in n cer- tain textbook. We suggest instilling in young students a respect for law and order. . And last of all we suggest to our citizens that they can assist us in "debunking” the criminal by taking the halo of romance from his head, where it has teen allowed to stay too long because of the “I-don't-care" at- titude of a mavdlin public. pointing ovt that if this is done, few youngsters will want to follow in the criminal's footsteps. The pardon and parole problem has become quite a serious one in the tinited States A study has shown that during the past several years there are approximately 12,000 criminal homicides in the United States cvery year. In these 12,000 cases of criminal homicide, practically all of which are lo- cal and not Federal crimes over which we have jurisdiction, there are only 9,000 arrests made each year. Of these 9,000 persons arrestod avery year for ‘criminal homicide, that is, for murders and manslaughters, only 4,500 are convicted every year. Of the 4,500 convicted overy yoar, not for potty pee ee 885 wee tte