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from Scandinavian countries showed 42 per 100,000 in penitentiaries; those from Germanic
countries, 88; from Slavic countries, 161; and from Latin and Greek countries, 290. The
reader is referred to Chart 13.
(5) The relationship between citizenship and criminality is briefly summarized as fol-
lows: out of 608 foreign born inmates of penitentiaries in 1921, 526 or 87 p.c. were aliens.
The rate for the aliens was 179 and for the naturalized, 20. Similar differences appear in the
rates for the individual countries of birth.
(6) That origin, as well as country of birth, is an important factor in criminality has also
veen demonstrated. The negroes are the most criminal in respect of major offences. Of
foreign origins the rates for the Roumanians (341), Italians (239), Greeks (219), Austrians
(196), Serbo-Croats (188), and Russians (141) are very high. That for all Scandinavian
origins combined was 25 per 100,000; for the Germanic, 20; for Slavic origins, 115; and for
he Latins and Greeks, 252. See Chart 14.)
That these differences are by no means accounted for by age and sex distribution is
made clear on examining the data for the Canadian born of the various groups, in the light
of recorded age distribution. Among the Canadian born of all groups the numbers of the
sexes are approximately equal, so that comparisons are not invalidated by considerations of
sex. The age distribution of the Canadian born section of the British, French, Scandinavian
and Germanic stocks was at least as favourable (if not more so) to crime than that of the
Slavic and Latin and Greek peoples, yet the latter showed proportions in penitentiaries
from six to sixteen times greater than shown by the Canadian born of the various North
Western European origins. The Slavie group showed a rate from one-half to four times
greater. These conclusions were confirmed by an examination of the foreign born male
population of the penitentiaries.
Crarr XIV
NUMBER ww PENITENTIARIE S rer 100000 POPULATION
21 YRS.OLD ano OVER of SPECIFIED ORIGIN S i»
CANADA, 1921
D
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S.,E astern ano Cent. Eur
N . Western Eurorean
Lanne ano Greex
Stavic |
French
BririsH
Scanoinavian
Germanic
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