A Study of National and Cultural Differences in Criminal Tendency (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It is important to see whether group differences in crime are due to inherited racial characteristics or to cultural influences. If racial and thus persistent, it is a matter of some concern, but if cul tural and thus subject to environmental influences, some ultimately satisfactory adjustment will be made.

One way to determine whether racial traits or cultural factors are responsible for group differences in crime is by comparing two generations of some national group or groups now residing in this country. If the differences are due to some inherited racial trait or tendency, they Should persist. If due to cultural influences the differences should disappear or be modified. The evidence for or against the existence of a characteristic or tendency as an inherited trait can be Obtained from a comparison of two succeeding genera tions of some racial or national group which has been transplanted to a new environment. In this study the criminal tendencies, as indicated by the type of crime committed, of the immigrants of vari ous national groups will be compared with the tendencies exhibited by the American born descendants of the same nationality.

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