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TABLE 121.—ORIGIN OF PENITENTIARY POPULATION, 21 YEARS AND OVER (BOTH SEXES),
1921.
Origin
Canada........
British........... RS SAR SN VE ©
TENTS cos crvsimnssinpe sama h i WERES 08 THINS NE
LS ME A Ei [PR
Bonhoh. .youirvvivans sections ves idei ds Conan s [.
Zronoh. ciuiiriar irs itn anna eee ——
AUSEIIBM. cout verte ciiiieecrieriinaneenn aan. wry
Belgian..........ooooiiiniiinieininn vl erveeEe
Chinese...... simaiions 45 # wR A Ee
Czech... Ln
Danish. ... PR
Dutch.... -
Finnish.... wnt SARE
Jerman. ., wrens “3 HEF
Greek. ... ¥ www i
Hebrew........ vovvuan... I —— FRR BEERS
Hungarian... Tad
[eelandie........... 3 EAEERAR Bho mba
Indian. ..... ees cen
Hall, coerce vor wis sniniibine ia BE nanan » wr sew
fapanese...... Hrs » wpe
E+ J TU, we we Ewe
Norwegial................ vw WN AW BENE RAE
Polish.......... .. We RNETRE URNETAS RISER 40d
Roumanian..... VERSE PN SUERTE HE 5 REREDAR efi at
BARBI scopy wmmtinies 16 WERURRS EUIRIHSIEEL BL § 2 evens eas
Serbo-Croatiall.......v.eenie tintin race trees
Swedish... oii iii ieee irae mmm wy
SWISS. teeter,
TIBI oi vcopupnammns as fawns FREER Rh CITE Tams oon
Various and unsnecified
1)
Total number
in
penitentiaries
(21 years and
over)
1.801
959
536
247
165
=
(2)
Total
population
(21 years
and over)
4 811.0031
2,898,076
1,497,337
667,441
706,516
24,782
!,168,387
46,403
11,041
1,367
74,183
4,224
11,545
°°, 141
1,364
0,218
3,659
60, 695
5,592
8,757
51,088
33,480
10,742
10,613
"6,479
021
“49
“65
26
79
0g
88
7
3
{3)
Number per
100,000 of
rorresponding
group
20
33
36
"3
1
3
c
z
2
4
Ey)
18°
50
1
2
5
86
1 Does ‘not include Yukon and Northwest Territories. Includes persons of unstated age.
When the European stocks are arranged by geographical and linguistic groups as in
Table 122, the numbers are more representative and ihe rates more reliable. The North
Western European group of foreign stocks had 21 per 100,000 21 years of age and over in
penitentiaries in 1921, while the South, Eastern and Central group showed a figure of 138—
a proportion nearly seven times greater than that for the North Western Europeans. The
Latin and Greek stocks had a proportion some ten to twelve times greater than that for
the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples, and the Slavie stocks a proportion four to six times
greater. Were it not for the Ukrainians, who form a very considerable proportion of the
Slavic population in Canada, the rate for the latter group would have been higher than
actually appears.
So much for the crude data and their practical bearing on the problem of law enforce-
ment in the various ‘origin’ groups in Canada.
Now these differences are by no means entirely due to birthplace or age and sex
distribution. It becomes apparent that a genuine factor of origin and heredity is involved,
when one compares the groups in the light of previous sections of this study. The Slavie
stocks, for instance, showed a considerably smaller proportion 21 years of age and over
than the Scandinavians, as well as a much smaller surplus of males. Yet in spite of an
age and sex distribution less favourable to crime than that of the Scandinavian peoples,
the rate in penitentiaries for the Slavic group was four and a half times greater. The fact
that the proportion born on this continent was some 7 p.c. smaller for the Slavs than for
the Scandinavians offsets in some measure the difference on the score of age and sex
distribution, but is certainly not adequate to account for the striking spread in the propor-
tions in penitentiaries. It would seem that the difference is mainly due to origin and
heredity. The figure for the Latin and Greek group may be unduly high because of some-
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