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or nationality group furnishes to the main classes of kinds of 

 offense must be compared with the proportion which that race 

 or nationality group furnishes to the total amount of crime. On 

 this basis, an examination of the cases in this study shows that 

 the Americans furnish less than their fair share of offenses against 

 the person and against property, and more than their fair share 

 of offenses against chastity and morality and against public 

 policy. The Colored beai less than their fair share of offenses 

 against the person, slightly less against public polic}^ about their 

 fair share against property, and much more than their share 

 against chastity and morality. The Old Immigration resembles 

 the Americans in bearing less than its fair share of offenses against 

 the person and against property, and more against chastity and 

 morality and against public policy. The New Immigration bears 

 more than its share of offenses against the person and against 

 property, but less against chastity and morality and against 

 public policy. 8 That is, in offenses against society the American 

 and Old Immigration lead, and in offenses against the person and 

 against property the New Immigration leads. 



A study of these cases arranged according to specific kinds of 

 offense and single race or nationality unit is extremely interesting. 

 Only in the following specific kinds of offenses were there sufficient 

 numbers and sufficient definiteness in the charge for profitable 

 comparison: assault and battery, drunkenness, vagrancy, lar- 

 ceny, gambling, prostitution, running house of ill fame, adultery, 

 associating, and fornication. 



In assault and battery cases the Servians show the highest 

 relative proportions, followed in order by the Greeks, Russians, 

 Roumanians, Slavs, Lithuanians, Austrians, Poles, Croatians. 

 Macedonians, Hungarians, Italians, Bohemians, English, Ger- 

 mans, Horoats, Colored, Jews, Americans, Irish, and Scotch. 



In the cases of drunkenness the Swedes show the highest 

 proportional numbers, followed in order by Scotch, Irish, Amer- 

 icans, English, Slavish, Russians, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Polish, 

 German, Horoats, Austrians, Croatians, French, Greek, Servians. 

 Roumanians, Italians, and Colored. 



, In the cases of vagrancy the Austrians show the highest pro- 

 portional numbers, followed in order by the French, Croatians, 

 Scotch, Irish, Americans, English, Germans, Jews, Colored, 

 Greeks, Hungarians, Polish, Swedes, Russians, Italians, Lithu- 

 anians, and Servians. 



8 Morrison (Crime and Its Causes), pp. 38, 39; Lombroso (Crime, Its Causes and 

 Remedies), pp. 23, 26, 30, 33, 35, 38; Aschaeffenburg, p. 32. 



