Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

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Identifikator:: 1794974814

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-182133

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Acland

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 224 S.; Diagramme

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter X. The relation of origins and nativity to crime

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BIRTHPLACE OF PENITENTIARY POPULATION 191 TABLE 118~NUMBER AND RATE PER 100,000 OF FOREIGN BORN MALE PENITENTIARY POPULATION AGED 21 YEARS AND OVER IN CANADA, BY COUNTRY OF BIRTH, 1921. Birthplace All Foreign Countries...... Burope........ ee ibeseraraeeiins aa Augtria...., “ FP Belgium...., S— —_ A — Bulgaria... .......o. vicina SR aw SRR. SNE Tzechoslovakifh.........coviviiinnian, wn Ep TR Denmark........... wh panier + 3 weREE Say drance......... Pn Galicia. ...ooovvennn on. 0h $5.4 Germany............... feeereenne Greece........ RN Holland... conc pu vous A Hungary. .... ww ww [celand............ g sores Lady oui in sun ay v + wen a Tugo-Slavia..... 4 43a Norway........ ward ii Poland................ ms wo RN ROUMARIA Lt. sviiiieeeeet tiie ciine tes eetieiiaraeenns cana AN PUB. ong sein gowns pppmes prisms » —— warmiions BWOD0Mirnso 1 vena aR an FARE £5 SPIRE ERRETYS LINE SETS SETHE BREE pees wa Switgerland.......... .. 4 ERR «oF Ukraine. - 188. ....... China...... JBM sun ces srvmres yoru § 3 OTR saver cmemras sven oi Turkev United States. ..........c........ Other Countries... Number of males in peni- sentiaries 21 years and over 508 2 "3 -4 213 10 Rate per 160,000 males 21 years and over in each nativity group 142 146 273 99 1,064 45 132 104 272 107 111 ¢ 387 182 209 144 38 199 29 53 57 39 0 377 159 703 largest numbers of male immigrants have come in recent years, the adult male population in Canada born in each of those countries was over 24,000—a number sufficiently large for the purpose of the present analysis. When arranged according to the rate per 100,000 of such adult males in penitentiaries the countries appear in the following order:— Country of Birth £7: A —— Roumionii. ., couvues seinen commons on vain Poland.......... Russia... .. Rate in penitentiaries per 100,000 adult males’ 7 273 200 182 144 Per cnet arrived before 1001 8-63 17-11 13-16 10-48 17-80 Length of residence of those arrived since Jan. 1, 1901 (in years) 9-5 11-9 12-0 10-3 10-9 The rate for all foreign countries was 142. Italy shows a rate between two and three times greater. That is offset to some extent by the recent date of arrival in Canada, which causes the age distribution of the foreign born males from that country to be somewhat more favourable to crime than that for males from certain other countries. It is imconceiv- able, however, that such an excessively high rate can be more than partially explained on that score. One is forced to assume the existence of an original tendency toward crime which is associated in part with the correlative tendency to concentrate in cities, especially in large ones. The Austrian rate of 273 per 100.000 is also exceedingly high, and it is not

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