.. ... ... ... ... -- -- -- -- --2 --2
Frauds on Keepers of Refreshment
Houses ... ... ... ... ... -- -- -- -- I-4 1 4
Rural Offences ... ... ... ... -- -- -- -- 6 --6
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Yearly Average of Convictions,
Gross Totals 6,273 43,584 49,857 3,300 163,997
167,297
[1] Devastation of crops, destruction of fences. [2] Unauthorised gaming
houses; secret lotteries. [3] An exceptional figure, owing to 528
convictions
in 1863, whilst the average of the other years was nine convictions.
[4] Electoral offences.
are 4 per cent. in Italy, touch 9 per cent in France.
Sexual crimes and offences (as we saw in the case of rape), such
as abortion, adultery, indecent assaults, and incitement to
immorality, which in Italy present very small and negligible
figures, are more frequent in France. Whilst the illegal carrying
of arms, threats, false witness, escape from detention, violations
of domicile, calumny, are of greater frequency in Italy than in
France, the contrary is true of bankruptcy offences, political and
press crimes and offences, on account of a manifest difference of
the moral, economic, and social conditions of the two countries,
which are plainly discernible behind these apparently dry figures.
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