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rape, robbery, petty larceny, grand larceny, burglary, forgery, 

 false pretense, sodomy, and bigamy. Arranging the cases accord- 

 ing to classifications of offense and race or nationality group, 

 offenses against chastity and morality show too few cases to 

 offer any conclusions. Of offenses against the person the Colored 

 show the highest relative proportion, followed by the Americans 

 and New Immigration in almost equal proportions, the Old 

 Immigration showing no cases. Of offenses against property the 

 New Immigration shows tha highest relative proportions followed 

 in order by the Americans, the Old Immigration, and the Colored. 



Arranging these cases according to age groups and race or 

 nationality groups, the Americans show the greatest number of 

 cases in the age period 16 to 19, the Colored 25 to 29, the Old 

 Immigration 20 to 24, and the New Immigration 20 to 24. The 

 greatest number of cases of all races or nationalities occur from 

 16 to 34 years inclueive. 



Only 6 cases of females are shown in this study, 3 Americans 

 and 3 Colored. Of these cases, 3 are for grand larceny, 2 for 

 bigamy, and one for murder. One is 20 years of age, two 24 

 years, one 30, one 32, and one 36. 



SECTION IV 48 



Section IV of this study of adult crime in Gary consists of 36 

 cases, the less serious cases coming into the criminal courts from 

 Gary, 1910 to 1915 inclusive, cases in which sentences were 

 commitments to the Lake County Jail, the Indiana State Penal 

 Farm, or the Correctional Department of the Indiana Woman's 

 Prison. 49 



Arranging these cases according to race or nationality group, 

 the New Immigration shows the highest absolute numbers fol- 

 lowed in order by the Old Immigration, the Colored, and the 

 American. 



Roughly comparing the relative proportion which each race 

 or nationality group furnishes to the total amount of crime in 

 this study to the proportion which that race or nationality fur- 

 nishes to the general population of the United States, the New 

 Immigration and the Colored appear to show more than their 

 proportional amount of crime, and the Old Immigration and the 

 Americans less. 



^Original tables, pp. 174-179. See Preface to this study. See also Appendix, 

 Tables X, XI. 



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



