France, 1890–1895.[209]

Children Belonging to Parents1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1890–1895 Average Percentage.
Boys. Girls.B. G.B. G.B. G.B. G.B. G.B. G.
Property owners or possessing incomes 29 2 36 1 36 1 36 2 34 2 29 0 0.6 0.1
Practicing liberal professions 31 2 28 0 31 0 30 0 42 17 46 0 0.8 0.0
Agricultural 1,000 1251,192 1051,199 1011,252 138 893 102 929 115 20.8 10.0
Industrial 1,252 1931,186 1791,059 1631,237 2401,304 3001,317 304 23.7 20.1
Miscellaneous 2,084 5721,937 4932,130 4131,866 3732,199 3112,120 327 39.8 36.4
Mendicants, vagabonds, prostitutes 391 201 434 224 423 287 440 294 403 286 333 300 7.8 23.3
Unknown or disappeared 364 91 342 133 347 136 374 129 325 95 263 106 6.5 10.1
Total 5,151 1,1865,1551,1355,2251,1015,2351,1765,2001,1315,0371,152100.0100.0

These figures show clearly that it is only an insignificant number of young criminals who come from the well-to-do classes.[210]

I have been able to procure only a few data from other countries; their results, however, are identical with those for England and France.

Italy.

Of the 2,000 young criminals examined by Ferriani, there were 1,758, or 87.9%, coming from families where a profound poverty reigned, and only 148 (7.4%) from families that had never known poverty.[211]

Prussia.

77.8% of the children received in the correctional educational institutions during the year 1901–02 came from very poor families.[212] [[487]]

It is then the poorest classes that furnish the greatest number of juvenile criminals.