COMPARATIVE TABLES. Page TABLE A.-ASSIZES AND QUARTER SESSIONS, 1899 to 1925.- 15 TABLE B.-COURTS OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION, 1899 to 1925.-INDICTABLE Nature of Offences OFFENCES.-Persons Tried and 18 TABLE AB.—INDICTABLE OFFENCES, 1899 to 1925.—Persons TABLE C.-COURTS OF SUMMARY JURISDICTION, 1899 to 1925.-NON-INDICTABLE OFFENCES.-Persons Tried and Nature of Offences 21 24 TABLE D.-CRIMES, 1899 to 1925.-Crimes (Indictable Offences) known to the Police 27 TABLE E.-SUMMARY OF THE PRECEDING TABLES, with the Proportions to Population 30 NOTES TO THE COMPARATIVE TABLES. These Tables have been compiled from the annual Tables in the previous volumes of Criminal Statistics from 1899 to 1924, and from the Tables for 1925 in the present volume. The figures are taken from the following Tables :— Table A, Persons tried at Assizes and Quarter Sessions, from Table III, column 2. Table B, Persons tried for indictable offences by Courts of Summary Jurisdiction, from Section A of Table IX, column 2, as expanded in Table XVIII, columns 7, 8, and 9. Table AB, All persons tried for indictable offences, obtained by adding together the figures of Tables A and B. Table C, Persons tried for non-indictable offences by Courts of Summary Jurisdiction, from Section B of Table IX, column 2. Table D, Crimes known to the Police, from Table XVIII, column 2. In each Table the titles of offences for which there were no figures are omitted. Table E shows the average figures, both actual and in proportion to population, (a) of persons tried for all crimes and offences for each quinquennium since 1899, and (b) of the crimes (indictable offences) known to the police during the same periods. The non-indictable offences are in this Table grouped in two divisions-those that are definitely criminal in character, and those which may be regarded as non-criminal." The division of non-indictable offences into "criminal" and "non-criminal" is discussed at page 22 of the Criminal Statistics for 1898. " In Table E the proportions are calculated on the population for the middle year of each period of years, e.g., those for 1920 to 1924 on the estimated population for 1922, those for 1915 to 1919 on the estimated Fopulation for 1917. TABLE A.-ASSIZES AND QUARTER SESSIONS, 1899 to 1925. -Persons for Trial and Nature of Offences. a Two years' average only. Offence created by the Infanticide Act, 1922. b Offence created by the Punishment of Incest Act, 1908. TABLE A.-ASSIZES AND QUARTER SESSIONS, 1899 to 1925.-Persons for Trial and Nature of Offences-continued. Class III.-Offences against Property without Violence. 37. Larceny of Horses and Cattle 253 272 223 184 38. Larceny from the Person 631 482 382 323 39. Larceny in House 144 133 103 83 40. Larceny by a Servant 209 198 218 238 5,346 6,174 6,446 5,315 2,552 3,512 3,268 3,009 2,877 2,753 8,084 2,661 51. Arson .. 92 125 126 123 43 EF 1 3881 |