﻿V. Conclusion 



Consistent with the conclusioa ia the Special Report of the 

 United States Census on Prisoners and Juvenile Delinquents in 

 1904 for the United States as a whole, this study of juvenile 

 delinquency and adult crime in Gary shows that the Americans 

 and the Old Immigration do bear mor? than their proportional 

 share of more serious adult crime, but less than their proportional 

 share of juvenile delinquency and petty adult crime; the New 

 Immigration bears less than its proportional share of the more 

 serious adult crimes, but more than its proportional share of 

 juvenile delinquency and petty adult crime; and the Colored 

 bear more than their proportional share of juvenile delinquency 

 and both petty and more serious adult crimes; that is, the unfav- 

 orable relation which the races or nationalities of the New Immi- 

 gration and the Colored race bear to juvenile delinquency and 

 petty adult crime established for the United States as a whole, 

 including both rural and urban communities, holds true also for 

 Gary, a single urban community. 



Some of the associations of juvenile delinquency and petty 

 adult crime given in this study bear also a certain direct or indirect 

 relation to economic and social class, while certain others have 

 nothing to do with economic and social class. For example, such 

 an association as housing conditions bears a very definite relation 

 to economic and social class, while such an association as age 

 bears little relation, if any, for practically the same ages are 

 found in all classes. 



In this study those associations of juvenile delinquency and 

 petty adult crime which bear a relation to economic and social 

 class are: in juvenile delinquency, the disposition of the case, 

 repetition of offense, physical aid mental abnormality, bad 

 associates, geographical distribution of cases, housing conditions, 

 family life, and the industrial status of the family; in adult 

 crime, illiteracy, geographical distribution, and industrial status. 

 These associations of juvenile delinquency and petty adult crime, 

 taken together, are sufficient to indicate quite definitely the 

 economic and social classes from which juvenile and petty adult 

 offenders in Gary are recruited. 



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