The number of certificates of unruliness issued is considerably greater than the number of boys received.
He may still be sent home—if there is no accommodation for him at the local police cell or prison—on an unruliness certificate.
Statistics on certificates of unruliness are not collected centrally.
That is the first point to be made, namely, that 101 certificates of unruliness does not necessarily mean that 101 girls have been dealt with.
The total number of certificates of unruliness issued by juvenile courts in 1978 was 3,546; 3,404 for boys and 142 for girls.
The first column in the following table shows the number of certificates of unruliness issued in respect of boys aged 15 or 16.
Since 1977, the issue of certificates of unruliness has been the subject of very strict conditions.
The people must respond with disobedience and unruliness rather than accept these reactionary laws.
