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 penisentiaries
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 ——
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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 imconceivable,
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
