﻿Edmondson : Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime 99 



and petty adult offenders — all these are also associations of low 

 economic and social class. Also in every case these conditions 

 are more unfavorable in the New Immigration and Colored than 

 in the American and Old Immigration. 



That is, juvenile delinquents and petty adult offenders in 

 Gary are recruited from the lower economic and social classes; 

 and of these the New Immigration and the Colored occupy 

 positions in the scale lower than the Americans and the Old 

 Immigration. So that a greater amount of juvenile delinquency 

 and petty adult crime must be expected in the two former race 

 or national^ groups — a conclusion which is borne out by the 

 actual facts. 



It is unfair then in juvenile delinquency and petty adult 

 crime in Gary to compare the New Immigration and the Colored, 

 consisting chiefly of the lower economic and social classes, with 

 the Americans and the Old Immigration including all social and 

 economic classes because the unfavorable relation of the races 

 or nationalities of the New Immigration, and to a certain extent 

 that of the Colored race, to juvenile delinquency and petty adult 

 crime is determined not by the race or nationality group, but 

 by the social and economic class to which these races or national- 

 ities belong. 



