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Table VI. Cases of Offenders in Section I of the Study of Crime in 

 Gary Arranged According to Industrial Classes and Race or 

 Nationality GROUP by Per Cent 2 



Nationality or Race 



1 



II 



III 



IV 



V 



VI 



VII 



VIII 



Total 



No. 



Per 

 Cent 



1 . American 



7.4 

 25.58 

 7.65 

 5.01 



2.05 

 1.29 

 1 .70 

 2.99 



19.95 

 50.38 

 29.36 

 63.54 



4.73 

 1 .55 

 5. 10 

 2.99 



35. 18 

 10.85 

 22 . 34 

 12.04 



1 .23 

 0.77 

 0.63 

 0.24 



3.08 

 1.03 

 2. 12 

 4.64 



1.85 



486 

 387 

 470 

 1635 



28 

 12 



100 

 100 

 100 

 100 



100 

 100 



2. Colored 



3. Old Immigration. . . 



4. New Immigration. . 



5. Asiatic Immigra- 



tion 3 



0.63 

 0.30 



6. Other Americans 3 





































7. All races or nation- 

 alities 



8.51 



2.63 



48.72 



18.73 



18.74 



0.52 



3.59 



0.56 



3031 



100 





Table VII. Cases of Offenders in Section II of the Study of Crime 

 in Gary Arranged According to Nativity and Kind of Offense by 

 Per Cent 





Native 

 Born 



Foreign 

 Born 



Unknown 



Against prcperty 



Against society 4 



All others 



23.11 

 6.22 

 46.22 

 24.45 



35.64 

 9.25 

 36.72 

 16.82 



39.13 

 5.43 

 42.39 

 13.05 





Totals 



100.00 



100.00 



100.00 





2 Class I, irregular low-paid work, wages $4 to $6 a week; class II, small inde- 

 pendent businesses (as junk dealer), income small and indefinite; class III. 

 unskilled laborers, wages 17% cents to 24 cents an hour; class IV, semi-skilled 

 workers, wages $3 to $5 a day ; class V. skilled workers, wages $3.15 to $8 a day ; 

 class VI, professional men ; class VII, business men ; class VIII, agricultural 

 workers. 



3 Numbers too small for calculation. 



4 Includes offenses against chastity and morality and against public policy. 



