| Categories of Convicts. | To 100 Convicts of Each Category the Education had been: | |||
| Good. | Defective. | Bad. | Not known. | |
| Legitimate | 33.0 | 54.0 | 11.0 | 2.0 |
| Illegitimate | 8.4 | 63.4 | 25.3 | 2.8 |
| Brought up at home | 38.0 | 11.0 | 49.0 | 2.0 |
| Brought,, up,, in another family | 9.0 | 17.0 | 73.0 | 1.0 |
| Brought,, up,, in,, an institution | 16.0 | 19.0 | 53.0 | 13.0 |
The figures concerning the bad education of illegitimate persons are very striking, as well as those brought up in families other than their own; of the latter only 9% had received a good education even as that term is used in the table.
Wurtemberg, 1877–1888.
The following figures have to do with 3,181 criminals in prison in Wurtemberg during the years mentioned:
Out of 100 in each group there were the following number of illegitimate births:
| All prisoners | 27.0 |
| Habitual criminals | 30.6 |
| Occasional criminals | 17.4 |
| Thieves | 32.4 |
| Swindlers | 23.1 |
| Sexual criminals | 21.0 |
| Perjurers | 13.0 |
| Incendiaries | 12.9 |
Between 1876 and 1885 there were 8.76% of illegitimate births in the general population; and while the general mortality of children in their first year was 26.1% (1884–1893) that of illegitimate children was 32%.[265] The influence of illegitimacy is very strong here, therefore.
To 100 persons of each category the following were brought up outside of their own family: [[504]]
| Prisoners in general | 16.0 |
| Habitual criminals | 19.3 |
| Occasional criminals | 7.6 |
| Thieves | 20.9 |
| Incendiaries | 11.0 |
| Swindlers | 10.8 |
| Sexual criminals | 9.4 |
| Perjurers | 6.0 |
To 100 persons of each category there were the following one or both of whose parents had led an immoral or criminal life: