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ber of Jews and Greeks) followed in order by the Americans, 

 the Old Immigration, and the Colored. 



In occupational group VIII, agriculture, the Americans show 

 the highest relative proportion, followed in order by the Old 

 Immigration and the New Immigration, the Colored showing 

 no cases. 



The examination of the cases arranged i 1 this way shows that 

 in general the New Immigration and the Colored cases belong 

 to occupational classes much lower in the scale than the American 

 and Old Immigration cases. 



Of the total numbers, by far the highest proportion, almost 

 half of the total, belong to the group of unskilled laborers, fol- 

 lowed in order by the skilled laborers, the low-paid irregular 

 workers, business men, semi-skilled workers, small independent 

 business men, agricultural workers, and fewest in the group of 

 professional men. The first five gnups include 82.05 per cent, 

 over three-fourths of the total numbers. That is, the great 

 majority of the cases belong to occupational groups low in the 

 scale. 



SECTION II 42 



Section II of this study of adult crime in Gary consists of 965 

 cases coming into the justice of the peace courts from 1910 to 

 1913 inclusive, a period of four years. 43 In the material used for 

 this study information as to single race or nationality unit or 

 race or nationality group is not given, but the material is based 

 on color and nativity, that is, cases are listed as colored and 

 white, native born and foreign born. 



Arranging these cases according to color and nativity, the 

 foreign born show the highest absolute numbers, followed by the 

 native born, the Colored showing very few absolute numbers. 

 Roughly comparing the proportion which each color and nativity 

 group furnishes to the total amount of crime in this study with the 

 proportion which each color and nativity group furnishes to the 

 general population of Gary, the figures indicate that the foreign 

 born bear more than their fair share of offenders, the native born 

 less, and the Colored less. 44 



Comparing the proportion of foreign born offenders in this 

 study in Gary with that of foreign born prisoners enumerated in 



42 Original tables, pp. 160-167. See Preface to this study. See also Appendix, 

 Table VII. 



43 See p. 43 of this study. 



44 See this study, p. 45, for sources of error in comparison. 



