Before taking up the criminal consequences of the family, I am of the opinion that this is the best place to fix our attention for a moment upon the criminality of women. In treating above of the origin of marriage as it exists today, we have at the same time spoken of the social position of woman.
d. The criminality of women. In order to give an idea of its extent and nature we must begin with some statistics. [[464]]
Germany, 1886–1895.[166]
| Crimes. | To 100,000 Persons Over 12 of the Same Sex, There was an Average Number of Persons Sentenced of: | |
| Men. | Women. | |
| Simple theft | 352.49 | 132.25 |
| Aggravated theft | 57.95 | 7.19 |
| Embezzlement | 80.97 | 18.25 |
| Robbery and extortion | 2.44 | 0.10 |
| Receiving stolen goods | 28.21 | 16.33 |
| Fraud | 88.06 | 19.50 |
| Forgery | 18.78 | 3.75 |
| Perjury | 6.83 | 2.31 |
| Threats | 46.36 | 2.65 |
| Procuration | 5.21 | 7.23 |
| Rape, etc. | 20.63 | 0.15 |
| Insults | 204.32 | 69.52 |
| Domiciliary trespass | 90.38 | 12.25 |
| Malicious mischief | 80.37 | 4.85 |
| Arson | 2.43 | 0.54 |
| Violence and threats against officials | 77.45 | 5.90 |
| Minor assaults | 118.30 | 12.71 |
| Serious assaults | 256.86 | 25.99 |
| Murder | 0.56 | 0.13 |
| Homicide | 0.75 | 0.15 |
| Crimes in general | 1847.03 | 380.42 |
This table shows that women have a general criminality from 4 to 5 times less than that of men. The figure for women exceeds that for men in the case of one crime only, procuration; for the others it is smaller, and for some very small (e.g. assaults, assassination, etc.). The following table gives an idea still clearer and more detailed.
Germany, 1896.[167]
| Crimes. | Number of Persons Convicted to 100,000 of Same Sex. | Number of Women Convicted to Each 100 Men Convicted. | |||
| Men. | Women. | ||||
| Abandonment of children | 0 | .02 | 0 | .1 | 800.0 |
| Abortion | 0 | .4 | 1 | .7 | 437.3 |
| Procuration | 6 | .0 | 9 | .2 | 167.7 |
| Receiving stolen goods (repeated recidivism) | 0 | .07 | 0 | .1 | 158.3 |
| Receiving,, stolen,, goods,, (simple) | 26 | .5 | 13 | .1 | 53.9[[465]] |
| Simple theft | 274 | .6 | 100 | .8 | 40.1 |
| Perjury | 3 | .1 | 1 | .2 | 38.7 |
| Insults | 223 | .7 | 76 | .5 | 34.2 |
| Simple theft (repeated recidivism) | 51 | .7 | 14 | .4 | 30.5 |
| Homicide | 0 | .5 | 0 | .1 | 22.0 |
| Arson | 2 | .2 | 0 | .5 | 21.8 |
| Embezzlement | 85 | .6 | 17 | .6 | 20.6 |
| Fraud | 101 | .7 | 20 | .4 | 20.1 |
| Crimes in general | 2177 | .07 | 388 | .9 | 17.9 |
| Extortion | 3 | .0 | 0 | .4 | 14.3 |
| Aggravated theft | 45 | .0 | 5 | .6 | 13.5 |
| Domiciliary trespass | 103 | .8 | 12 | .3 | 11.8 |
| Minor assaults | 138 | .3 | 15 | .4 | 11.1 |
| Aggravated theft (repeated recidivism) | 14 | .4 | 1 | .2 | 9.1 |
| Serious assaults | 448 | .4 | 32 | .8 | 7.3 |
| Violence, etc. against officials | 88 | .3 | 5 | .6 | 6.3 |
| Violence and threats | 60 | .7 | 3 | .6 | 5.9 |
| Malicious mischief | 93 | .6 | 5 | .4 | 5.8 |
| Robbery | 2 | .4 | 0 | .07 | 2.9 |
| Crimes against morals upon children | 25 | .3 | 0 | .2 | 0.7 |
The country upon which we are about to fix our attention is: