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Juvenile, white-collar crime on the rise
By Jiang Zhuqing (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-12 05:58
Juvenile delinquency and white-collar crime are on the rise across the
country posing new challenges to police and society.
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16-year-old murder suspect(C) was arrested after being involved in killing
of a 77-year-old woman in this photo taken on April 19, 2005.
[newsphoto] | "More than 75 per cent of robbery
and looting cases were committed by those between 14 and 25," Wu Heping, the
newly appointed spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), said
yesterday while revealing crime figures for the first half of the year.
In the same period, Internet-related crimes such as identity theft also
increased rapidly, he said.
However, there was a silver lining when it came to serious crime: Arson
(4,585 cases), explosions (543), homicides (11,000) and rapes (15,000), were all
down 21 per cent, 17.7 per cent, 13.6 per cent and 5.8 per cent respectively
over the first half of last year.
There were 253,000 robbery and looting cases during the first six months,
accounting for 12 per cent of the total 2.13 million criminal cases.
Wu's concern about youth crime is illustrated by a recent case in South
China's Guangdong Province in which several 16-year-olds robbed middle school
students six times within two months just so they could play games in Internet
cafes.
As to the reasons behind the growth of juvenile delinquency, a prosecutor who
deals with such cases said that ill-treatment or lack of proper guidance at home
can lead teenagers astray.
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