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ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTÍFICA ARGENTINA 



CRIME IN GERMANY 



The worse the crime the less tliere is of in war. Tliis statement is 

 especially true of Prussia, aud is all the more significant where mili- 

 tarism in the strongest. Prussia also had25 million inhabitants-more 

 than half of Germany (39.119.000). 



TABLE 24. — Crime in Prussia ^ 

 Population in 1867 : 24.047.934: in 1871 : 24.639.706 (2.46 o/o increase) 



Number of population for every oue accused 



— of convicted 



— sentenced tho death . . . . , 



— receiving life sentence 



of suicides "^ 



— sentenced to penitentiary 



Incendiarism ' 



Time qf Peace 



3309 

 339 



In the seconde line of table 24 are given the number of inhabitants 

 to every one accused of crime in Prussia during war and peace, show- 

 ing a large decrease in crime in general during war. The effectofthe 

 war appears still greater in 1871. The number convicted two years 

 (1868-69) previous to the war is 36 per cent more than the number 

 convicted during the war years 1870-71. The number sentenced to 

 death in 1869 is 56 per cent more than in 1870, and the number rece- 

 iving a penitentiary sentence is 20 per cent more than in 1870. Thus, 

 it would appear that the severer the crime, the less there is of it in 

 war, relative to other crime. 



Table 25 gives the figures for crime and convictions in general, 

 thefts and suicides in particular, in peace and war from 1867 to 1873 

 in Badén: it will be seen that there is a general decrease in 1870 in 

 these divisions of crime, although in 1869 there was an increase in 

 crime in general and in suicides, making the decrease in war more 



* Statistik der Preiissichen Sdmmrgeriehte, etc., für die Jahre 1870-7.5, Berlin, 1876. 

 - Preussiche Statistik. XXIX, K. Statistisohes Burean, Berliu, 1874. 



