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NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS. MORAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS. 151

Table 28. Some data concerning the frequency of crime» in Sweden.

Average for the years Both sexes. Men. [-Women.-] {+Wo- men.+} Age. Both sexes. Men. [-Women.-] {+Wo- men.+} Average for the years [-Infanticides.-] {+In- fanti- cides.+} Other
homicides. Larceny.4


a) Crimes, 186111900.1 b) By agu, 1881/90.* C) Special erimei.’

1861/65... 530 921 160 n/in ... 1751/75... 380 800

1866,70... SS-8 96-2 17-6 ..... ..„ ft.a 1776/00... 468 716

187175... 42 9 74 6 13 2 ™ ..... " .ii? 1801/20... 4 62 9 16 •

1876/80... 38 41 67 8 10 9 ..... iS 7 1821/40... 3 96 12-73 837

1881/85... 40-2 1 71 0 11-8 ..... ’S?., J??® fV, 1841,50.. 4-36 17 00 954

1886/90... 38-6 65-1 95 ft’fi..... * 1851/60... 4-72 1076 667

1891/95... 41 5 74-1 10-9 ..... J®.® 1861/70... 7 68 1142 602

1896/00... 44-9 81-6 100 ..... ff.1 I1.? S® 1871 80... 914 12*42 581

SX™..... ’2.® ’U tl 1881,90... 6-67 914 528

1861/75... MM 87-4 15-6 /u/®.......—03 ua 1x91/95... 626 886 615

1876,00... 40-3 71-8 10-6 Total 38"8| 680, 10 3 1896 00 » 4 80 9 00 570

K we look at the first division of this table, we find that
the yearly number of people condemned for crimes, from the period
1861/75 to the period 1876/1900, has fallen from 50-4 to but 40-3 per
hundred thousand of the population. To this gratifying result, the
decline in the misuse of intoxicating liquors has certainly contributed
together with the improvement in popular instruction, the increase of
wealth, and the far-reaching religious and other humanitarian
movements which, during this time, have so powerfully worked upon our
people. But some of it ought, no doubt, to be ascribed to the
emigration, which has carried away, not only a great number of the smartest
and most capable part of the population, but also a very great number
of its unquietest elements.

After having thus stated an improvement as being the rule, it must, on the
other hand, be admitted, that the time subsequent to 1890 again is characterized
by a certain deterioration. This has especially been the case concerning the
latest years, during which several crimes have attracted a large share of public
attention. To a certain degree, this sad circumstance may be explained by the
feet that in times of favourable economy personal transgressions always show a
tendency to increase; other causes are, perhaps, a legislation and an administration
humane to excess. In other respects, too, the phenomenon in question no doubt
calls for earnest reflection. That the conditions, however, — neither in comparison

1 Annual number per 100,000 inhab. of those pronounced guilty of serious crimes. It
ought to be noticed that the increase for 1891/1900 is partly apparent only, depending
upon certain crimes before having been counted among the »lesser ones> but now being

reckoned to the number of the serious. — * Annual number of those pronounced guilty of
serious crimes, per 100,000 inhab. within each group. — ’ Annually per million inhab. The

Bombers of infanticides, homicides, and assassination are gathered from the statistics of
population. For earlier times the heading >infanticides> comprises all child-murders, whereas
from 1861, only infanticide in a legal sense; the effect of thiB on the result will, however,
prove rather insignificant, and all the more so as the numbers for 1861/00 are sure to be
more complete than those for earlier periods. It will have to be noticed that according to
the figures in the Table above, there came during the years 1751/75 an average number of

4 infanticides on every thousand of mothers to illegitimate children, whereas in our days,
only about 1 or 2. Concerning other kinds of crimes than those mentioned here, some data
are given for the period 1891/95 on page 153. — * Petty thefts included. The first figure
comprises the period 1831/40. — 6 Provisional figures for the year 1900.

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