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Chapter 44. Non-institutional Aspects
TABLE 3
Distribution of Arrests According to Race and Type of Offense (Excluding those
Under Fifteen Years or Age): 1940
Offense Charged
Per Cent Negro of
Total in Each
Offense
Rate per 100,000 Population*
Negro White®
Criminal homicide 40.1 19.8 3-2
Robbery 30.8 31.7 7.6
Assault 44.0 1 16.4 15-7
Burglary—breaking or entering 66.3 22.0
Larceny-theft 28.4 138.1 37.4
Auto-theft 14.8 15.4 9.6
Embezzlement and fraud 11.5 17.1 14.2
Stolen property; buying, receiving, etc. 27.3 7.6 2.2
Arson 17.4 1.5 0.8
Forgery and counterfeiting 9.1 5.0 5.4
Rape 12.1 10.4 3.9
Prostitution and commercialized vice 25.4 17.7 5.6
Other sex offenses 14.9 11.
1
6.8
Narcotic drug laws 19*3 7-5 2.9
Weapons, carrying, possessing, etc. 45.8 20.3 2.5
Offenses against family and children 15.6 9.7 5-7
Liquor laws 47.2 36.5 4.4
Driving while intoxicated 6.8 * 5‘3 22.4
Road and driving laws 21.6 1 0.0 3.9
Parking violations 14*3
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Other traffic and motor vehicle laws 21.0 * 5-5 6.2
Disorderly conduct 28.1 64.2 17.6
Drunkenness 12.3 110.3 84.8
Vagrancy 19.5 81.5 36.0
Gambling 41.9 43-i 6.0
Suspicion 27.1 130.6 37.9
Not stated , 19.5 6.5 2.9
All other offenses ^3-5 69.2 24.1
Total 22.8 1,078.4 39>-6
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports (Fourth
Quarterly Bulletin, 1940), p, 223; and Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, Population, Preliminary
Release Series P-10, No. 1,
• Population bases taken as of 1940.
^ Less than one>tenth of one per cent.
• White includes both foreign-bom and native-born, and it includes Mexicans (who are separated in the
original statistics).
framing Negro menj a white woman who has a Negro lover can get rid
of him or avoid social ostracism following detection by accusing him of
rape} neurotic white women may hysterically interpret an innocent action
as an “attack” by a Negro.®* Real cases of Negro raping of white women
probably involve only psychopathic Negroes, at least in the South, for
punishment is certain and horrible.
As among whites, most of the crimes committed by Negroes are of a
petty type} it is only by comparison with the white crime rates that the
Negro crime fates for serious offenses stand out.
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