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in all those classes of offenses showing the greatest percentage of 

 convictions, except in drunkenness, when the Americans and Old 

 Immigration show the highest per cent. 



Only 43.9 per cent of all the cases arrested (in which disposi- 

 tion of case is given) for ill offenses have a sentence imposed. 

 This relatively small proportion of cases with sentences imposed 

 is due to a number of reasons among which may be mentioned 

 the following: humanitarian considerations on the part of the 

 police, prosecutor, and judge; to confused or insufficient evidence 

 for conviction; to a lack of seriousness of some of the offenses; 

 to the leniency of police, prosecutor, and judge in the case of 

 females; to the attitude of officers of the law toward certain 

 offenses; to the lack of a uniform intelligent policy of treatment 

 of certain kinds of offenses by the state; and to an honest differ- 

 ence of opinion regarding the treatment of certain kmds of 

 offenses. 



In an examination of the relation between imposition of 

 sentences and offenses only certain kinds of specific offenses in 

 this study show sufficient numbers and sufficient definiteness in 

 the charge to be of value. Of these the cases of drunkenness 

 show the highest relative proportions receiving sentences fallowed 

 in order by adultery, larcenv, gambling, assault and battery, 

 associating, vagrancy, prostitution, and running houses of ill 

 fame. 



Of the cases in which sentences were imposed, some paid 

 fines, some had their fines stayed, some were sentenced to jail 

 on failure to pay fines assessed, and some were both fined and 

 sentenced to jail. 



An examination of the cases arranged according to race or 

 nationality group and type of sentence imposed shows that in 

 the payment of fines the New Immigration furnishes by far the 

 highest proportional numbers, followed in order by the Old 

 Immigration, the American, and the Colored. In cases of fines 

 stayed the Colored show by far the highest proportional numbers, 

 followed in order by the New Immigration, the Old Immigra- 

 tion, and the Americans. In those cases sentenced to jail on 

 failure to pay fines assessed the Americans show by far the 

 highest proportions, followed in order by the Colored, the New 

 Immigration, and the Old Immigration. In cases having both 

 jail sentences and fines imposed the Colored show the highest 

 proportions, followed in order by the New Immigration, the Old 

 Immigration, and the Americans. 



