Table showing Number of Juvenile Offenders for the year of 1944 in Palestine before Nakba. British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 680. Chapter XVI: Social Services : Section 4: Social Welfare : Table 1

CHAPTER XVI.

were transferred to the Department. from the Police and Prisons in April, 1945.

The Department is directly responsible for the administration of the probation system, reformatory schools, remand homes, the Blind School for Arab boys, the relief of destitution in the Arab community and the control of grants from central funds for local welfare schemes and voluntary charitable institutions. It also deals with the problem of the war refugees, distressed British subjects and other destitute persons not provided for by other bodies.

125. The probation system and the treatment of delinquency are statutory obligations based on the English practice and governed by the Probation of Offenders Ordinance, 1944*, an up-to-date piece of legislation, and the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance, 1937 ** , which is now out of date and will shortly be replaced by a Children and Young Persons Ordinance, the enactment of which is at present under consideration.

Table 1 gives the total number of juvenile offenders during the year 1944 classified according to districts and religious communities. The age distribution and types of offences per hundred of Arab and Jewish male offenders during the same year are given in table 2. Statistics of the method of treatment applied in cases of juvenile offenders of the Moslem, Jewish and Christian communities are contained in table 3.

Total

District

Jerusalem

Gaza.

Lydda

Samaria.

Haifa

Galilee

Table 1.

Number of JUVENILE OFFENDERS, 1944.

Moslems I J;;;- "T Christians

I Nt~ % or I Num-

ber total ber

471 67% 416 100% 622 69% 322 99% 299 80% 324 93%

87~ 848

Total

182 0 264

707 416 901 825

1% 8%

2

47 11

26

18

4%
______
* Laws of 1944, Vol. I, page 174.
**Laws of 1937, Vol. I, page 137.

680