| Show KILLINGS BY WHOLESALE four thousand murders a year in italy most violent Ni or of civilized countries A homicide occurs every two hours in italy tins this was one of tho many startling statements made by baron garofalo a distinguished d italian criminologist in a lecture delivered on oil criminality in relation to the lie education of the ho people in the roman college his bis audience audi included queen margherita in ill italy the annual loss of life by boin homicide icide usually by lethal weapons numbers about souls compared with flance fianco for instance she alio has baa 10 0 homicides a year for frances 1 and 33 35 for Den marks 1 tho the latin populations indeed in ill both have a bad pie eminence over tile tho teutonic in crime generally awl and of these litin latin populations the italian is tho the worst baron garofalo proceeded to give tile the reasons why in lie firby place vendetta ei iletta which in m gieche was heroism and iu in mediaeval media mellizo eval val eulogo i laudable custom has hilge lingered red lorger longer in ill italy than iu in any other cou country itry fl dueling also is mole moie frequent u to the instruction given in groat great britain and buc tile iho united states of america lie he attributed the ilia fact that these countries have in 40 ceals diminished by orle one half the annual proportion of their delinquents and mendicants mendi cants while in italy ltd tile want of if similar instruction has resulted in tile the positive iDe increase rease of delinquency and mendicancy since 1802 1862 when to these considerations we add the increased bar hardness duess of living in ill tho the young king kingdom dow tile the strain put upon the moral resisting power by a crushing poverty the squalid dwellings the defective detec tivo ali by which the brain ia ja starved when it is not dot actually poisoned by the I 1 stimulants in which relief from nimery misery is sought and the depreciation of life as it exists under uch conditions wo we arrive at an all eile ensemble able of causes which lich quite accounts for these sad statistics |
