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garians, Italians, Jews, Lithuanians, Macedonians, Poles, Rou- 

 manians, Russians, Ruthenians, Servians, Slavs, and Slovaks; 

 seven races or nationalities of the Asiatic Immigration — Ara- 

 bians, Armenians, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, and 

 Syrian; four races or nationalities of Other Americans — Cana- 

 dians, Cubans, Indians, and Mexicans. In Section II of the 

 study of adult crime, material could be obtained only for nativity 

 and color, and in nativity only foreign born and native born are 

 designated. In Sections III and IV of the study of adult crime 

 20 single race or nationality groups are represented: Americans; 

 Colored; four races or nationalities of the Old Immigration — 

 Danes, French. German, and Swedes; 10 races or nationalities 

 of the Xew Immigration — Austrians, Bohemians, Croatians, 

 Greeks, Hungarians, Italians, Poles, Roumanians, Russians, and 

 Slavs; 2 races or nationalities of the Asiatic Immigration- 

 Arabians and Persians; 2 races or nationalities of Other Americans 

 — Canadians and Indians. These racial or national terms used 

 here are the same as those used in the Dictionary of Races com- 

 piled by the Immigration Commission, with a few exceptions. 31 

 Those given as Hollanders in this study are there given as 

 Dutch, Albanians are there included with the Greeks, Horoats 

 are there given as Hervats, Canadians are there included under 

 French Canadians and English. 



In considering juvenile delinquency and adult crime the 

 important fact for society is the determination of causes lying 

 back in the circumstances surrounding the commission of the 

 act of delinquency or crime. 32 In delinquency and crime, how- 

 ever, as is true in general in all human phenomena, there is a 

 multiplicity of causes, some direct, some indirect, some near, 

 some remote, and all confused in such a way that it is impossible 

 to assign to any one factor a definite value. 33 Because of this 

 complexity of causes it is thought best to follow the phraseology 

 of a study of Donna Fay Thompson, "The Associations of De- 

 pendence in 700 Families", Indiana University, 1914, and discuss 

 the circumstances surrounding the acts of delinquency and crime 

 under the term "associations", rather than causes. 34 



The discussion of these associations is necessarily limited 

 because of the kind and amount of material available. For 



31 Immigration Commission, Abstract of Reports. lSlO-11, Vol. I, p. 217. 

 32 Rhoades. 



33 Lombroso (Crime, Its Causes and Remedies'), p. 1: Devon, pp. 1S-21; Wines, 

 p. 279; Morrison (Juvenile Offenders), p..22-_ Healy, pp. 23, 24, 164, 165. 

 "Morrison (Juvenile Offenders), p. 1. 



