No. 24. STATE of EDUCATION ON COMMITTAL in 1856.

No. 26.- RESIDENCE of JUVENILES Previous to Committal in 1856.

The foregoing tables may be thus analyzed:

First.-Parentage: 29.69 per cent. had both parents living; 32.92 per cent. had both parents dead; 23.4 per cent. had lost their fathers, and 12.87 per cent. had lost their mothers; 369 per cent. had stepfathers, and 3-17 per cent. had stepmothers; 394 per cent. had been abandoned by their parents; 4.59 per cent. had absconded from their parents; and only 0.76 per cent. were illegitimate.

Secondly.-Education on committal: 22.93 per cent. could read and write; 19.37 per cent. could read imperfectly; 12.74 per cent. could spell; 6.17 per cent. knew their alphabet; and 38.73 per cent. were wholly illiterate.

Thirdly. Religion: 6.64 per cent. were of the Established Church; 0.75 were Presbyterians; and 92-63 per cent. were Roman Catholics.

Fourthly. Residence: 62.79 per cent. came from the town or county in which the gaol to which they were committed is situated; 37.2 per cent., or more than one third, were strangers to the locality.

Having thus shewn, from the Report of the Inspectors-General, the state of Juvenile Crime in Ireland, generally, we proceed to lay before the reader the facts and figures bearing upon juvenile delinquency in the County and City of Dublin. We take our tables from those elaborate returns furnished by the Inspectors-General, and the Dublin Metropolitan Police, in the Reports for 1856 :

TABLE XV. - Number of Juvenile Offenders committed to the severa

Number of Juveniles Committed twice, three times, four times, and five times and upwards, &c., in the year 1856.

County and Town Gaols, in the year 1856, with their offences, by ages and sexes.

Number of Juveniles committed Twice, Three Times, Four Times, and Five Times
Criminal Offenders being

Sentences of Death, Transportation, Penal Servitude, and Imprisonment of the Juvenile Offenders in 1855, but Tried in 1856, with their Ages and Sexes;

Criminal

Transportation, for

Penal Servitude,

Death.

17 and under

21 years.

Above 10 and under

17 and under

21

17

21

Above
10 and
under
17

17 and under

Above 17 Abore 17 Abovel IT 10 and and 10 and and 10 ard and under under under under under under 17 1 17 21 17 21 Years. Years. Years. Years. Years. Years Years. Years, Years. I ears

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