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la prostitution the Colored show the highest proportional num- 

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

 the Xew Immigration showing comparatively few cases. In 

 running houses of ill fame the Colored again show the highest 

 proportional numbers, followed in order by the Old Immigration, 

 the American, and the Xew Immigration. In adultery the 

 Colored show the highest proportional numbers, followed in order 

 by the Americans, the Xew Immigration, and the Old Immi- 

 gration. In associating or frequenting houses of ill fame the 

 Colored show the highest proportional numbers, followed in order 

 by the Americans, Xew Immigration, and Old Immigration. 



It is significant that in the two specific kinds of offenses, 

 assault and battery and drunkenness, the ranking of the racial 

 or national groups is reversed. In assault and battery the Xew 

 Immigration and Colored show the highest proportional numbers, 

 while in drunkenness these two groups show the fewest propor- 

 tional numbers. Evidently here the relation between assault and 

 battery and drunkenness is not very close. 



Of all the offenses represented in this study, drunkenness shows 

 the highest proportional number?, followed by assault and battery, 

 larceny, prostitution, gambling, vagrancy, associating, adultery, 

 and running houses of ill fame. It must be remembered that this 

 ranking is for cases arrested, and may not be the true ranking 

 of these offenses in the community. This possible discrepancy 

 is due to the fact that certain offenses are more easily detected 

 than others — such as gambling, for example — and also to the 

 fact that the public regards certain offenses as much more serious 

 than others and demands action in such — as assault and battery 

 for example — while almost disregarding certain other offenses — as 

 gambling for example. 9 



An examination of the ranking of the four classes of offenses, 

 those against the person, those against property, those against 

 chastity and morality, and those against public policy, in this 

 study, in studies in Indiana, and in the United States, shows a 

 wide variation not only in different parts of the country, but 

 for the same parts of the country at the same time. For example, 

 in the United States in June, 190-1, offenses against property 

 ranked highest, while for the whole year 1904 offenses against 

 public policy ranked highest. 1 ' 3 These differences are due to 



9Boies, p. 198; Quinton, p. 109; eUcKinn, p. 150; Koren, pp. 21-23. 

 "Koren, p. 20: Boies, pp. 33. 34 quoting 11th Census of the United States, Com- 

 pendium, Part II. p. 192. 



