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Juvenile delinquents and adult offenders are treated in this 

 study not only according to so-called single race or nationality 

 units, but these are in turn arranged in six race or nationality 

 groups: Americans, Colored, Old Immigration, New Immigra- 

 tion, Asiatic Immigration, and Other Americans. In the Amer- 

 ican group are considered cases of native born whites of native 

 born parents; in the Colored group, American negroes of what- 

 ever degree of purity; in the Old Immigration group, immigrants 

 of the second generation from those countries of northwestern 

 Europe which furnished the chief immigrant streams to this 

 country prior to 1882 ; 30 in the New Immigration group, peoples 

 from the countries of southern and eastern Europe which have 

 furnished the greatest number of immigrants to this country 

 since 1882; in the Asiatic Immigration group, peoples coming 

 from the countries of Asia; and in the Other American group, 

 American Indians, peoples from countries of North America other 

 than the United States, and peoples from the West Indies. It 

 will be noted from this grouping that the Americans as here used 

 correspond in general to the group of native born whites of 

 native parentage as used in the United States census reports, 

 the Colored with the negroes, the Old Immigration very roughly 

 with the native born whites of foreign or mixed parentage, and 

 the New Immigration very roughly with the foreign born whites. 

 The Asiatic Immigration and Other Americans include such small 

 numbers that they are not of much consideration. 



In all, 47 single racial or national units are represented in the 

 study. In the study of juvenile delinquency, 12 single races or 

 nationalities are represented: Americans; Colored; two races 

 or nationalities of the Old Immigration — German and Irish; and 

 eight races of the new Immigration — Croatians, Hungarians, 

 Italians, Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Servians, and Slavs. No 

 races or nationalities of the Asiatic Immigration or Other Amer- 

 icans are represented among the juvenile delinquents. In Section 

 I of the study of adult crime 47 single racial or national units 

 are represented: Americans; Colored; fourteen races or nat- 

 ionalities of the Old Immigration— Belgians, Danes, English. 

 French, German, Hollanders, Irish, Norwegians, Scotch, Scotch- 

 Irish, Spaniards, Swedes, Swiss, and Welsh; twenty races or 

 nationalities of the New Immigration — Albanians, Austrians, 

 Bohemians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Finns, Greeks, Horoats, Hun- 



30 Jenks and Lauch; Haskins; U.S. Census, 1910, Vol. I, p. 781; Immigration 

 Commission, Abstract of Reports, Vol. I, 1910-11. pp. 13-27. 



