| Show 1 MEN AND WOMEN AS CRIMINALS MR lecik lecil lif lie cuy Y and other philosophers have argued a priori t that lathrom lat int orom from tiled tile i predominance of the emotional and sympathetic in women most of the crimes crimes committed by them would be of a self selo sacrificing character the tile criminal acts of men would be more largely 4 revengeful malicious and self seeking in a paper read road recently by dr edward jarvis of boston before thib the american social science convention ven tion he presented facts which aff atford afford ord abundant and convincing evidence in confirmation of this argument the noctor boctor collected his liis figures from the annual reports of prisons in england scotland massachusetts i and new york tork cit city aj and those figures prove that the tho men commit by far the most of the crime not only the largest but the worst part of it the statistics covered a period of a number of years and criminal whom were males and females the men criminals thus being nearly double the number of the women but the facts went still further against the men for or nearly one half of the male convicts committed selfish selfish chimes crimes s or crimes against property and nd crimes of malevolence while ozi only or between one fourth and one fifth of the female con viets committed crimes from selfish or malicious motives these figures give a basis for the rule that nearly fifty per cent of the crimes commit beinish ted by males are prompted by selfish or malicious motives while hiie hile b br the primes crimes commIt commuted Wil wll by women ollya fraction over twenty per cent are of that class but for the women the 11 figures ures make a still more favorable snowing ow for they include the arrests for prostitution night watking walking and intemperance now though the law is usually much more enforced against are guilty of lewdness or intemperance than against men who are so guilty it is a notorious fact that the number of men who commit those crimes is very greatly in excess of the number of women who do so the law ai as commonly administered permits a far greater laxity to men than to women in these particulars being much more ready to punish the latter than the former even when equally guilty in regard to repetitions of crime statistics taken from the prison records of england scot seo llanil u d and massachusetts show that thattie cheaver average committals for each of men were less than two and for each of women the average e was thus while whilo mal mai maies males es went to prison times females went times at forst first sight this tilis seems to tell badly for the women but it must mutt be taken into account that if a i m man a n commits a crime lie is not always shut out ut from society and the way baek back to respectability is nelt neit neither hervery very ion lon long iong 9 nor very hard but when a woman becomes an offender against the law society offers her ver very v little encouragement to reform the tire rule iule being for her one step in crime one exposure of her guilt and then irretrievable disgrace for the tile door of society is 19 cruelly almost savagely sl nitin her face and she has no open pen samell se sesame at her command |
