Excerpt from The Problem of Juvenile Crime

IT would be difficult, I think, to fix upon a more suitable place in which to discuss the problem of juvenile crime, its causes, and its remedies, than is the building in which we find ourselves this evening a building dedicated as a memorial of one who for so many years was so deeply interested in all such questions. It is therefore with especial pleasure that I am able to respond to your invitation to address you here.

NO heading of newspaper paragraphs is more familiar now than that Of Increase in Juvenile Crime It is one of the few subjects, apart from the War itself, forced most prominently upon the attention of the public, and interest in it has probably never been more widespread.

Not a few people appear to think that the decrease in adult crime as a result of the \var is due'to some mysterious psychological process. There is nothing mysterious about it. What has really happened is that very large numbers of potential criminals, and of those whose irregular ways of living had from time to time brought them within prison walls, have found in naval or military service a healthy outlet for energies frequently misdirected before the War. The much-advertised 'increase in juvenile crime is equally free from mystery, though it requires far more explanation.

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