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Chapter 44. Non-institutional Aspects
TABLE I
Prisoners Received From Courts by State and Federal Prisons
AND Reformatories by Sex, Race and Nativity; 1939
Race and Nativity
Number Received from
Courts
Rates per 100,000
Population*
Total Male Female Total Male Female
White 47>97 i 45.796 4^.3 77.0 3.7
Native 45,a8o 43,257 2,023 42.4 80.9 3.8
Foreign-born 2,691 2,539 152 23-6 42.2 2.8
Negro 17.724 16,135 1,189 134.7 257.4 18.0
Other Races 729 69S 31 123.8 202.9 12.7
Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Prisoners in State and Federal Prisons and ReformatorUs: J 030 (1041).
p. 11; and Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1040, Population, Preliminary Release, Scries P-io, No. 6,
* The population bases are as of 1940.
women is more than four times as great as that for native white women.
Foreign-born whites have rates much lower than native whites and mem-
bers of races other than white and Negro (that is, Indians, Chinese, Fili-
pinos, and others) have rates almost as high as do Negroes. Table 2
reveals that the difference between Negroes and whites is much larger
in the North than in the South. In the South the number of Negro male
felony prisoners is only between two and two-and-a-half times as great
(in proportion to population) as the number of native white male felony
prisoners. In the North, however, the Negro rate is almost five times as
large as the white rate. This would seem to be due mainly to the fact
that Northern Negroes are concentrated in cities, where social disorganiza-
tion is greater and law enforcement is more efficient. We shall return to
the problem of causes of crime after considering the types of offenses
which are most characteristic of Negroes.
TABLE 2
Male Felony Prisoners Received From Courts by State and Federal Prisons
and Reformatories, by Geographic Areas and by Race and Nativity; 1939
Number Rate per 100,000 Population*
Race and Nativity Southern
States**
Northern and
Western States
Southern
States**
Northern and
Western States
Total 19,430 28,894 46.6 32.1
Native White 10,659 ^2,759 34.3 30.0
Foreign-born White 132 J ,435 21.
1
13.3
Negro 8,548 4,402 86.3 148.7
All Other Races 91 298 88.6 61.3
Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Prisoners in State and Federal Prisons and Reformatories: IQJQ
(1941), p. 28; and Sixteenth Census of the United Stales: 1940, Population, Preliminary Release, Series P-io.
* Population bases are as of 1940.
b ^uthern statM include, according to this census publication: Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia,
Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana. Oklahoma and Texas. Georgia and Alabama did not report. All Northern states reported.
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