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and gangs and those committed by children acting alone shows 

 that the Old Immigration furnishes the smallest relative pro- 

 portion of cases acting in groups or gangs, followed in order by the 

 American, the Colored, and the New Immigration. In the Xew 

 Immigration almost as many cases were brought to the attention 

 of the court in which more than one child was associated as were 

 brought in singly. Of the total number of cases of all races or 

 nationalities, one-third are associated in groups or gangs. These 

 groups and gangs are not made up of one race or nationality, 

 but rest on a neighborhood or personal basis of organization, 

 rather than racial or national. 22 



In some of the cases bad associations aside from groups or 

 gangs is given as a contributing factor in delinquency. One 

 Hungarian child is accustomed to loafing with colored people of 

 a low character; 2 Italian children come from a family with a 

 criminal history in some of its members; one Lithuanian child 

 lives in a very bad neighborhood, one stays in a brother's saloon, 23 

 and in the case of 2, the neighbors conspire with the parents to 

 evade the law; one Slavish child lives in a neighborhood of boys 

 and girls who are admitted to have a bad influence over the child. 

 Such associations lead to imitative delinquency. All of the 9 

 cases given here are in Xew Immigration families. 



11. Geographical Distribution 24 



All of the cases of juvenile delinquents in this stud}' in which 

 information is given are residents of Gary. Residence districts 

 are considered under the headings "North Side", "South Side", 

 "Tolleston", and "Miscellaneous". 25 Some residences are given 

 simply as Ga ry with no street and number specified and in some 

 cases the residence is not given. 



An examination of the families of the juvenile delinquents 

 in this study arranged according to residence districts shows that 

 all of the families of the Old Immigration live on the North Side 

 or in Tolleston: all except two of the American families live on 

 the North Side or in Tolleston; all of the colored families except 

 one live on the South Side; and all of the New Immigration 

 families live on the South Side with the exception of on? Croatin 

 family who live on the North Side, and one Lithuanian and two 



-Rhoades, p. 125; Everson, p. 126; Breckenridge and Abbott, pp. 128, 129; 

 Hall, p. 217. 



23 This was prior to national prohibition. 



24 Original tables, pp. 31-33. See Preface to this study. 



2 5See map, p. 12. 



