﻿IV. Certain Associations of Adult Crime 



SECTION I 



A. General Considerations 



Section I of this study of adult crime iu Gary consists of 

 3,031 cases of persons arrested by the police to be brought before 

 the city court during a period of twelve months from January 1, 

 1914, to December 31, 1914, inclusive. In this number, 47 

 single race or nationality units are represented. 1 



1. Proportion by Race or Nationality 2 



An examination of these cases arraaged according to single 

 race or nationality units shows that the Americans furnish the 

 highest proportions of the total number, followed in order by the 

 Colored and the Poles. Arranged according to race or nation- 

 ality groups, the New Immigration shows the highest proportions, 

 followed in order by the Americans, the Old Immigration, and 

 the Colored. 



In order, however, to determine the true relation of any race 

 or nationality to crime, the proportion which that race or nation- 

 ality furnishes to crime should be compared with the proportion 

 which that race or nationality furnishes to the general population 

 in the corresponding ages. 3 



From the figures at hand it appears that in general the Amer- 

 icans and Old Immigration bear less than their proportional 

 share and the Colored and New Immigration more than their 

 proportional share of adult offenders in this study. 



2. Kinds of Offenses 4 



In a stud}" of adult crime, kind of offense is a much more 

 important fact than in juvenile delinquency because in crime 

 the act committed indicates more clearly the character of the 

 individual, and also because the act committed is still used as the 

 basis of treatment of the individual. 



J See p. 42, this study. 



2 Original tables, pp. 58-61. See Preface to this study. See also Appendix, 

 Table IV. 



3Koren, pp. 28, 40, 41. 



4 Original tables, pp. 61-74. See Preface to this study. See also Appendix, 

 Table V. 



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