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as reported by Topinard. Cases' of males under 21 years of age 

 in this study were arranged according to average weights of 

 single race or nationality units by age and these were compared 

 with the average weights of the cases in this study over 21 years 

 of age. Casss of f3males 21 years of age a ad over in this study 

 were arranged according to weight, height, and single race or 

 nationality units and compared with average weights and heights 

 of women as given in a table in the World's Almanac and Ency- 

 clopedia for 1916. 29 



In the cases of women in this study, there are three prostitutes 

 weighing 400 pounds each. Lombroso calls attention to abnor- 

 mality in the weights of prostitutes. 30 



No inferiority in height and weight was found in the cases in 

 this study, but in many cases, especially in the New Immigration, 

 an actual superiority to heights and weights in general population 

 as computed by anthropologists. This fact is in general contrary 

 to conclusions of most criminologists. 31 This difference is^due, 

 without doubt, not to the fact that the Gary criminal population 

 as such shows anything peculiar in this connection, but to the 

 fact that the general population of Gary is a selected population. 

 Because of the newness of the city of Gary it has attracted to it 

 the pioneer type of people, that is, the most vigorous and enter- 

 prising persons from rural communities and other cities and 

 towns in this country. Especially is this true of the New Immi- 

 gration where a double process of selection has been at work: 

 first, in the old country where only the more vigorous and enter- 

 prising types in the community emigrate, and, second, in the 

 cities and towns of this country where only the more vigorous 

 and enterprising remove to other towns and cities. Another factor 

 in the superiority of height and weight of the New Immigration 

 population of Gary is that of their peasant origin where the 

 stock is generally sturdy. 32 



Another factor that may enter here in explaining the differ- 

 ence in conclusion reached here as to height and weight of cases 

 in this study and that in other studies of crime is the fact that 

 these are cases of petty crime only, while other studies referred 

 to include cases of much more serious crimes. 



2 9 Topinard (L' Anthropologic), p. 423; Deniker, p. 577; Topinard (Anthropology) I 

 p. 398, World's Almanac and Encyclopedia, 1916, p. 83. 



3°Lombroso and Ferrero (The Female Offender), pp. 50-113. 



"Aschaeffenburg, p. 168; Symposium, Physical Bases of Crime, Rock Sleyster, 

 M.D., p. 116, Z. R. Brockway, p. 135; Boies, p. 24; De Quiros, p. 116; Kellor, p. 44; 

 Healey, p. 242; Ferrero and Lombroso, pp. 47, 48; Macdonald, p. 38. 



32Topinard (Anthropology), p. 398, (Anthropologie Generate), p. 448; Ripley, 

 p. 80; Keane (Ethnology), p. 187; JL)e Quatrefages, p. 353. 



