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the United States, June 30, 1904, and with that of prisoners com- 

 mitted to institutions in the United States during 1904 45 Gary 

 shows a much higher proportion of foreign born offenders. This 

 difference may be due somewhat to the fact that the figures for 

 the United States include only the offenses in which there were 

 commitments, while this study includes many offenses in which 

 no sentence is imposed, and many minor offenses in which in 

 general the foreign born exceed the native born. 



Arranging the cases according to types of offense, in offenses 

 against the person the foreign born show the greatest relative 

 proportions; in offenses against property the foreign born also 

 show slightly greater relative proportions; but in offenses against 

 society the native born show highest relative proportions. 



Arranging these cases according to kind of offense and sex, 

 in offenses against the person and against property the males 

 exceed the females; but in offenses against society the females 

 far exceed the males, due to the large number of females offending 

 against chastity and morality. 



SECTION III 46 



Section III of the study of adult crime in Gary consists of 87 

 cases, the more serious cases coming into the criminal courts 

 from Gary 1910 to 1915 inclusrve, cases in which sentences were 

 given for imprisonment in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan 

 City, the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonville, or the Woman's 

 Prison at Indianapolis. 47 



Arranging these cases according to race or nationality group, 

 the Americans show the greatest absolute numbers followed in 

 order by the Xew Immigration, the Colored, and the Old Immi- 

 gration. 



Comparing the proportions which each race or nationality 

 group furnishes to the total amount of crime to the proportion 

 which that race or nationality group furnishes to the general 

 population of Gary (roughly), the figures indicate that the Amer- 

 ican, the Colored, and the Old Immigration bear more than their 

 proportional share of these more serious crimes, and the Xew 

 Immigration much less. 



Specific kinds of offenses represented in this study are : assault 

 and battery with intent to kill, felonious assault and rape, murder, 



45 U.S. Census, 1910, Vol. I, Population, p. 568; Koren, p. 40. 



"Original tables, pp. 168-173. See Preface to this study. See also Appendix, 

 Tables VIII, IX. 



47 See p. 44 of this study for description of this group. 



