The Philadelphia Negro (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) by Gates Henry Louis Jr.; Du Bois W. E. B.; Bobo Lawrence

Author:Gates, Henry Louis Jr.; Du Bois, W. E. B.; Bobo, Lawrence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

A separation of criminals according to sex and age and the kind of crime is of interest. (See p. 182 for males.)

CRIMINALS IN EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY—FEMALES, BY AGE AND CRIME

The women are nearly all committed for stealing and fighting. They are generally prostitutes from the worst slums. The boys of fifteen to nineteen are sentenced largely for petty thieving:

Making a similar table for two other age periods we have:

There is here revealed no especial peculiarity: stealing and fighting are ever the besetting sins of half-developed races.

It would be very instructive to know how many of the 541 criminals had been in the hands of the law before. This is however very difficult to ascertain correctly since in many, if not the majority of cases, the word of the prisoner must be taken. Even these methods however reveal the startling fact that only 315 or 58 per cent of these 541 convicts are reported as being incarcerated for the first time. 226 or 42 per cent can be classed as habitual criminals, who have been convicted as follows:

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