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with native Canadians. After age and sex differences were eliminated, the number of convictions
 per 100,000 British born was about equal to that for the Canadian born, but the
number for the foreign born was nearly twice as great.
(2) Reformatory Data—The proportion of immigrant males and females in reformatories
 in 1921 was about twice greater than that for the Canadian born. Those of the North
Western European peoples (other than British and French) had 36 per 100,000 children
between 10 and 20 years of age in reformatories, while the South, Eastern and Central
European peoples showed 184. The Scandinavians had 32 per 100,000; the Germanic group,
38; the British 185; the Slavs 166; and the Latins and Greeks 340. (See Chart 12.) The
influence of nativity is included in the above figures. They depict the situation as it actually
 existed in 1921. The influence of nativity may be eliminated by examining separately
 the rates for the immigrants and the Canadian born of the various origins. When the
rates are thus freed from the influence of nativity, it appears that the Italian, Greek, Polish,
Russian and Austrian children show many times larger percentages in institutions of correction
 than do those of the Germanic and Scandinavian origins.
The data also show that, for the average foreign community, there is marked improvement
 in the behaviour of the children of the second and subsequent generations in Canada.

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NUMBER eer [00000 CHILDREN, 10-20 YRS,» REFORMATORIES,
ror SPECIFIED ORIGIN-GROUPS, 1921

ORIGIN
8, Easrean ano Cen Eur

RATE PER 100000
DC 80 100 150 P00 2%

N- Western European

Latin AND Grek

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RB RitisH

FreNcH

GerMaNIC

SCANDINAVIAN

(3) Penitentiary Data—The evidence of the penitentiary population is much the same,
except that the rate for the British born is comparatively low as compared with that for
:he foreign born. The crude penitentiary rates per 100,000 population of corresponding
nativity groups, 15 years and over, were for the Canadian born 19, for the British born 27,
and for the foreign born 75 per 100,000. Differences in sex distribution were elimnated
 by examining the data for the males and females separately. The rate for the Canadian
 born males was found to be 38, for the British born males 49, and for the foreign born