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drawn, what must be the situation in the case of the foreign born 

 who are recruited from almost every country and province in 

 Europe and many countries of America and Asia? Many of the 

 foreign born, however, have not come directly to Gary on coming 

 to this country, but have moved from some other industrial 

 city in the United States to Gary and so are somewhat accustomed 

 to an industrial community. 



11. Association in Crime 38 



There are certain criminal acts which by their nature involve 

 more than one person, and certain others that may or may not 

 be engaged in by more than one person. Such are assault and 

 battery where two persons are necessarily involved, tho one may 

 or may not be passive; and highway robbery where several 

 persons may join in the same criminal act. 



In this study, information is not available in all types of 

 offenses to show whether one or more persons are involved. Some 

 of the cases of assault and battery, larceny, gambling, malicious 

 destruction of property and malicious trespass, prostitution, 

 adultery, riot, and highway robbery give information which is 

 quite significant in the determination of the relation between 

 race or nationality and association in crime. 



In assault and battery about twice as many cases are between 

 individuals of the same race or nationality — as, for example, Pole 

 against Pole — as between individuals of different race or nation- 

 ality units, as, for example, Russian against German. That is, 

 the persons of the same race or nationality units fight among 

 themselves about twice as often as with persons of other race or 

 nationality units. These figures do not indicate that the contact 

 of many races or nationalities in Gary increases race antagonism. 



Trouble between individuals of different races or nationalities 

 does not apparently follow the lines of old race prejudices in 

 Europe, about as many cases being shown in which the par- 

 ticipants belong to races or nationalities between which there is 

 no sharp antagonism in the countries of origin — as, for example, 

 Pole against Slav, or Greek against Colored — as belong to races 

 or nationalities between which there are many causes of bitter- 

 ness in the country of origin — as, for example, Russian against 

 Pole, or Austrian against Servian. 



In larceny where more than one person is involved, the case 



is somewhat different. Two or more individuals are here 



■ . mm 



38 Original tables, pp. 145-150. See Preface to this study. 



