The educational and other aspects of the statistics of crime in Dublin
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O'Shaughnessy, Mark S., 'The educational and other aspects of the statistics of crime in Dublin'. - Dublin: Dublin Statistical Society,Vol.III, Part XIX, 1861, pp61-70Download Item:
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By resisting
the continued influx of country pauperism into the large towns;
by repressing so far as is possible the tendency to this movement
which is nourished by the circumstance that poor law aid is available
only in the towns, ? that is to say, in the Workhouse; by exercising
actively the legal powers of enforcing sanitary regulations;
by discouraging the demoralizing crowding-together of the poor in
close and filthy city habitations; by insisting upon the constant use
of moral agencies in the education of the young, not mere school
instruction, but systematic training in daily labour, and not even
this alone, but withdrawing from them the pernicious examples
which will ever be found by the simple and unthinking amongst
masses of population, and banishing from the public gaze debasing
exhibitions of open profligacy and unblushing vice; by efforts tending
to such ends crime must be diminished and society improved.
As in the spread of education, the increase of prosperity, the growth
of labour, we have seen the number of criminals diminish, so we
may still trust in the extension of good results when we devote ourselves
to the exercise of good means.
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Read Monday, December 17th, 1860
Author: O'Shaughnessy, Mark S.
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Dublin Statistical SocietyType of material:
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Journal of the Dublin Statistical SocietyVol.1, Part XIX, 1861
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