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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DATE OF IMMIGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN PENITENTIARIES 199 Date of Immigration of Immigrant Penitentiary Population—Before concluding this chapter there is a further question which is of general interest. How soon after their arrival in this country do the immigrant offenders get into trouble? The answer is suggested in Table 125, which distributes the total male immigrant penitentiary, population by date of arrival in Canada, and also gives separate figures for countries of birth showing the greatest numbers in penitentiaries. The proportion of all immigrants in penitentiaries is greatest for the group which came between 1915 and 1918. The same applies to the European males and to each of the European countries from which large numbers of our criminals have come. The rate was smaller for those who arrived after 1918, and it decreased with length of residence prior to 1915. What then is the inference? One is first reminded that the census of penitentiaries in 1921 does not give the date of admission but rather records the actual number in penitentiaries at that time. If we assume that on the average the foreign born inmates of penitentiaries had already served one and a half years of their sentences at the date of the Census, and further that those who were reported as coming between 1915 and 1918, had, on the average, been in the country four and a half years prior to 1921, it would appear that the most common length of residence prior to committing an offence sufficiently serious to merit a penitentiary sentence, was about three years. The reason for this is a matter of conjecture, but the suggestion is offered that the new arrivals, finding themselves in a strange country with a strange language and strange ways, require two or three years to adjust themselves to the new environment before falling into the error of mistaking liberty for license. That this seems reasonable is confirmed by the figure for the United States immigrants, which differs from that of all other foreign countries. The largest proportion of immigrants from that country commit offences almost immediately on arriving here. The majority of them are of British stock, and have been reared on this continent under conditions very similar to those existing in Canada. A period of adjustment is consequently not necessary. They are not strangers in a foreign country, like the European and especially the Asiatic immigrants, and if they have criminal tendencies they are not deterred from giving expression to them on account of unfamiliarity with the language and ways of the country. It also seems probable that more criminals come from the United States for the express purpose of committing crime than from other foreign countries; Canada appears to be somewhat off the beat of the international criminal from other foreign parts. FABLE 125.—DISTRIBUTION OF THE IMMIGRANT MALE POPULATION OF PENITENTIARIES, BY BIRTHPLACE AND YEAR OF ARRIVAL. CENSUS OF 1921. Birthplace Total...... -. British born........ Foreign born........ Zuropean born...... Austria............. aly. coven. Zoland.............. Qoumania. ......... Basil, cove cunvnvna Asiatic born........ United States born. Immigrant male population in Canada by date of arrival | Rate per 100,000 immigrant male population in penitentiaries by date of arrival Jan. 919 tol 1915. | 1911- | 1901- [ Before | Juss 18 14 10 1901 Totals Jan. 1919 to | 1915- | 1911-' 1901- June 18 14 10 1621 Before 1001 | Totals 03,086 59, 563 43,526 15,154 438 © 965] 171 346 694 5,210 24.957 58,590 17,400, 11,195 8,799 355 104 283, 68 145,598 38,084 93,452 0 599 Qa 138, 631 125,900, 212,731 21,068 '¢,888 =1 =g ee! 187,04. 110,845 77,007 12,620 = 457 161 483 644 “ap 1,629 5 i 7.970 7% 594) 26.241 1,188,565." ce lea il. 567,072 24] 118 7 54 519,470 1790 194] L8 105 273,892 921 409] 210 117 34,034) 1,142} 1,408; 330] 225 24,219 49) 815] 370) 400 16,864 0 56] 230, 156 3 i 13,228 289) 483) 388; 121 1 sae 56,967) 1181 667] 193 801 42 1° 47,211 0) 19 60 65 38 ; 196. 427, 256] 155 83 94 114 ri 9 177 zy a 4. 5,204 27.041 Et...

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