| Civil Status. | To 1,000,000 of the Population in Each Group there were Charged with Rape upon Adults |
| Bachelors | 8 |
| Married men | 3 |
| Widowers | 2 |
Marriage, then, tends to diminish the number of these crimes. The economic life having, in its turn an influence upon the number of marriages the relation between this life and the crimes in question is clear. If the economic situation of many persons did not prevent their contracting marriage at the period of life indicated by nature, these [[616]]crimes would be much less frequent. As Dr. Augagneur says: “Our laws and physiological exigencies do not harmonize.”
A second question is, what is the class of the population that commits these crimes? As we have seen, the statistics of Italy and Austria show (see pp. 437, 438) that it is almost exclusively the poor who are guilty of sexual crimes. In Italy 92.1% are indigent or have only the strict necessaries of life; in Austria 91.2% are without fortune, and only 0.2% are well-to-do.
The statistics of the professions of convicts in Germany (see p. 441) show also that those who are arraigned for these crimes are especially working-men, and particularly unskilled laborers (among whom the statistics include also white-slave traders, professional criminals, etc., see p. 442). Unfortunately these statistics do not distinguish between sexual crimes committed upon adults and those committed upon children. The following table shows that the number is greater for the first than for the second of these crimes.[477]
France, 1836–1880.
| 1836–1840. | 1876–1880. | |||
| Percentage of Total Number Accused of Rape and Indecent Assault Committed Upon | ||||
| Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | |
| Engaged in the cultivation of the soil, laborers, farm servants, etc. | 38 | 33 | 52 | 39 |
| Workers engaged in handling the products of the soil, iron, wood, etc. | 30 | 26 | 25 | 25 |
| Bakers, butchers, cabinet-makers, etc. | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Tailors, wigmakers, hat-makers | 7 | 8 | 3 | 6 |
| Merchants | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Sailors, carters, porters | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Domestic servants and keepers of inns, lodging houses and cafés | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Liberal professions | 5 | 11 | 4.5 | 10 |
| Vagrants | 3 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 |
| 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
Although this table by itself has little value, since the comparative figures for the population in general are lacking, it suffices to show, by comparison with the preceding tables, that the crime with which we are concerned is committed by working-people especially. The [[617]]criminals in a large number of the cases are rural, as the last table proves to a certain extent, and as further appears from the following.[478]
France, 1846–1880.
| Residence. | 1846–1850. | 1876–1880. | ||
| Absolute Numbers. | % | Absolute Numbers. | % | |
| Rural population | 804 | 74 | 412 | 67 |
| Urban population | 264 | 24 | 160 | 27 |
| Residence unknown | 16 | 2 | 38 | 6 |
| Total | 1,084 | 100 | 610 | 100 |
Even when we take account of the fact that the rural population in France is more numerous than the urban, we still see that the crime in question is committed in the country especially.[479]