Browsing by Subject "Drunkenness"
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On the statistics of crime arising from or connected with drunkenness, as indicating the importance of increasing the punishment of habitual drunkards, and of those who seriously injure their children by what they spend on drink
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)In the discharge of my duty of reporting on criminal statistics in Ireland, some statistics have come under my notice which raise important questions as to the adequacy of the existing punishments for drunkenness. -
Report of the Charity Organisation Committee on the organisation of the courts by which drunkenness is punished, in connexion with suggested extension of the Justices' Clerks Act, 1877, to Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1878)In investigating the causes of distress, drunkenness appears at once to be one of the chief causes. It is also intimately connected with the prevalence of vice, as it weakens the checks against immorality. So again, the ...