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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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

Collection:: Economics Books

202 RELATION OF ORIGINS AND NATIVITY TO CRIME Canadian born population corrected for both age and sex. When a similar procedure is followed with the data for the “Other British” and Foreign born the following rates are found: — Nativity Canadian.........covuireiinint ieee erenniaens. Other British Born...... Foreign born... . Number who would be convieted per 100,000 population (both sexes) under axisting age and sea distribution, on the assumption of a uniform crime rate for all nativity groups 133-3 206-1 229-0 The actual rates in the census year 1921 were as follows: — Canadian born....................... Other British born............... Foreign born................. .. Nativity } Actual number of convictions per 100,000 population in 1921 156 236 408 raking the Canadian rate as a base in each of the above cases and expressing the rates for each of the other nativity groups as a proportion of the Canadian rate, we get the following results: — Nativity Canadian born...............ccoceeviunnn.,. Other British born.........c..ooouuvvein. Foreign born. ...... FE Number who woulc be convicted per 100,000 of each nativity group on the basis of a uniform crime for all, expressed as percentages of the ‘ate for the Cana- dian born Actual rates in 1921 expressed as ercentages of the rate for the Canadian born 00 100 155 151 179 205 Ratio of actual convictions to expected convictions 100 98 152 it is apparent from the above percentages that sex and age distribution are adequate to account for the entire difference in crime rate between the Canadian and “other British” born. In the case of the foreign born, the expected number of convictions per 100,000 was 72 p.c. greater than that for the Canadian born population; the actual rate was some 162 p.c. greater in 1921, leaving an excess of 90 convictions or 52 pc. to be iccounted for on grounds other than age and sex. The figure of 90 convictions or 52 pe. probably understates the difference for two reasons. In the first place, for 2,625 or 13.5 p.c. of the convictions birthplace was not given. There are reasons to believe that more than a proportionate number of these were of foreign birth. If so, had the “not givens” been distributed, the rate for the foreign born would have been relatively higher than appears in the table. Further, the analysis has proceeded on the assumption that the age distributions of the foreign and Canadian born within the broad age group 21-39 were similar. Now Table 6, Volume II, of the Census 1921 shows that this is not the case. Of the Canadian born males between 20 and 29, the largest number were in the age group 20-24 and the second largest in the group 25-29. Thus relatively larger proportions of the Canadian born males were in the twenties. With the foreign born, on the other hand, the largest numbers were between 35 and 39 years of age and the next largest quinquennial group was 30-34—that is, relatively larger propor- tions were in the 30's. The 20's are the years most favourable to crime, as is shown above by penitentiary data. Thus the age distribution of the foreign born between 20 and 40 was less favourable to crime than that of the Canadian born in the same broad age group. In view of these facts it is obvious that the results minimize the difference between criminality among the foreign born and the Canadian born. That such is the case is confirmed in the preceding discussion of penitentiary population by age and nativity. The foreign born males in penitentiaries show more than twice the rate for the Canadian horn age for age.

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