But the reformation of the criminal is not the only obligation laid upon society, there is also the education of the child. It is frequently being stated that criminals are on the increase; it has been shown that this increase is not a national one, it must be then that for some reason the practice of virtue is becoming more and more difficult, whereas that of vice is becoming increasingly easier. Recruits are steadily joining the ranks of crime, and when one sees that, as a result of their home and school training, the rising generation is developing all the characteristics of the criminal, a somewhat alarming conclusion very strongly suggests itself. Society has the criminals that it deserves. It may fail to recover those who have entered upon a criminal career, or it may be actually guilty of manufacturing criminals. What are we doing? New Zealand has this hope, that its traditions do not fetter it, and its institutions are young and plastic. THE END. +------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the | | original document have been preserved. | | | | Typographical errors corrected in the text: | | | | Page 12 Gcd changed to God | | Page 12 criminoligists changed to criminologists | | Page 14 violaters changed to violators | | Page 20 effrontry changed to effrontery | | Page 24 tpyes changed to types | | Page 34 healty changed to healthy | | Page 35 alcholic changed to alcoholic | | Page 46 physichological changed to physicological | | Page 74 maxium changed to maximum | | Page 80 Obviviously changed to Obviously | | Page 93 removed duplicate word "and" | | Page 98 Chappel changed to Chapple | | Page 98 celebate changed to celibate | | Page 104 exacttitude changed to exactitude | | Page 111 Chappel's changed to Chapple's | | Page 116 syphillis changed to syphilis | | Page 121 unkown changed to unknown | | Page 128 aguments changed to arguments | | Page 133 consideraly changed to considerably | | Page 134 Charle's Reades changed to Charles Reade's | | Page 137 removed duplicate word "of" | | Page 140 approbious changed to opprobious | | Page 141 abont changed to about | | Page 143 demonstate changed to demonstrate | | Page 144 kindergartem changed to kindergarten |