Show Crime and the Price of Bread Professor Brentano the wellknown Berlin authority on sociology has published pub-lished statistical comparisons between the price of bread and the prevalence of crime that are us Instructive ns striking In commenting on the data furnished on this subject by MaY of Bavaria Professor Brentano says The facts are so surprising that It Is Impossible not to see that on the average the Increase of the price of bread by 1 penny In the period from 1835 to 1801 in the Bavarian territory in every 100000 Inhabitants Increased the number of thefts by one while on the other hand the decrease of the price 1 penny decreased the number of thefts by one lhe application ot this he makes to the whole German Empire Tlu folLOwIng folLOw-Ing list furnishes some data Illustrative of the point in question the price of grain being for 1000 kilograms Price of Year Crimes uratn las iXiJ 1J 13S1 1J 1 tiNa 1S31 5WJ ti-Na ISSj 4W 14UO ISSli 4SO liOU 1557 411 iZU5 1316 1Sl 4 1 isjo < m IOU 1SU1 511 2112 The criminal authorities of Germany have repeatedly l noticed these relations and have drawn attention to these peculiar pe-culiar figures |