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By combining those cases who paid fines a ad those who were 

 sentenced to jail on failure to pay fines (in which latter case the 

 court had 10 way to determine whether the fine would be paid 

 or not) the wide differences between race or nationality group 

 tend to smooth out. The relatively high proportion of the New 

 Immigration paying fines means little more than that offenders 

 in this group prefer to, and manage to pay their fines rather 

 than to "lay them out'' in jail, and no one race or nationality group 

 stands in a more unfavorable relation to the court in the matter 

 of payment of fines than any other group. 



In this study a much smaller proportion of famales received 

 sentences than of males. Of the total number of cases of all 

 races or nationalities, 31.46 per cent of the females have sen- 

 tences imposed while 43 . 93 per cent of the males received sen- 

 tences. This difference is due largely to the special leniency of 

 officers and courts in dealing with women offenders, and probably 

 also to differences in opinion as to dealing with the chief kind of 

 offense committed by the majority of women in this study — ■ 

 prostitution. 



An examination of the cases of women in this study arranged 

 according to race or nationality groups and sentences imposed 

 shows that the Colored receive the most severe sentences. 



B. Individual Considerations 



4. Age 12 



The age groups used in this study of adult crime are those 

 used by John Koren in the Special Report of the United States 

 Census on Prisoners and Juvenile Delinquents in 1904. These 

 groups are 16 to 19, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, 35 to 39, 40 to 

 44, 45 to 49, 50 to 59, 60 to 69, and 70 years and over. 



An examination of the cases in this study arranged according 

 to age groups and single race or nationality unit shows that with 

 the exception of the English, Scotch, Slavs, and Swedes, each 

 race or nationality has the greatest number of offenders in the 

 age groups 20 to 24 years and 25 to 29 years, that is, in general, 

 in the years 20 to 30. 



Arranged according to race or nationality group and ages, the 

 Americans show the greatest number of cases 20 to 30 years of 

 age with a large proportion 30 to 34 years of age. The Colored 

 show the greatest number of cases 20 to 30 years of age with a 



12 Original tables, pp. 86-91. See Preface to this study. 



