On criminal statistics; especially with reference to population education and distress in Ireland
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O'Shaughnessy, Mark S. 'On criminal statistics; especially with reference to population education and distress in Ireland'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. IV Part XXVIII, 1864, pp91-104Download Item:
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In the session of this Society in 1860-61,I availed myself of the
admirably arranged returns of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, to
bring before the Society some of the aspects of crime in this city,
especially in regard to education, and from the facts adduced in the
paper then read I pointed out what appeared to me to be the direction
which efforts towards the diminution of crime should take.
"By resisting the continued influx of country pauperism into the
large towns, by exerting 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?by efforts tending to such ends (it seemed to me) crime must
be diminished and society improved." No array of facts, no columns
of figures need be marshalled to carry conviction to most minds of
these truths. But, baffled at times to find the true causes for the
results which statistics seem to present, at fault to know why, with
a set of facts of one kind, another set of facts apparently consequent
or necessarily co-incident are yet not traceable; baffled, at fault, as
to all we would know, through insufficient information or deficient
intelligence, yet there never fails to be found enough to keep us in
heart for warring on against ignorance and against idleness.
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Read Wednesday, 18th May, 1864
Author: O'Shaughnessy, Mark S.
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. IV Part XXVIII 1864
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