At the penitentiary congress at Brussels Marambat reported that out of a total of 787 convicted of homicide, assault, etc., studied by him, there were 260 or 33% who committed their crimes in a state of drunkenness.[547]
Hungary, 1897.
At the same congress Dr. J. Fekete stated that in 1897, 75% of the 25,000 street brawls, 66% of the 1,574 cases of resistance to the authorities, 50% of the 13,564 serious assaults, and most of the homicides were committed in a state of intoxication.[548]
Massachusetts, 1894–1895.[549]
| Crimes. | Percentage of Crimes Committed in a State of Intoxication. |
| Malicious mischief | 70.0 |
| Homicide | 64.7 |
| Threats and violence | 59.6 |
| Murder | 25.0 |
| Resistance to officers | 19.0 |
Norway, 1886–1889.[550]
| Crimes. | Percentage of Prisoners who had Committed their Crimes in a State of Intoxication. |
| Resistance to officers | 81.8 |
| Homicide | 66.6 |
| Assault | 55.0 |
| Threats | 40.0 |
Netherlands, 1901.
The criminal statistics of the Netherlands being among the few that give any information upon this point, the following table is of real importance:[551]
| Crimes. | Percentage of Convicts who Committed their Crimes in a State of Intoxication. |
| Serious assaults | 51.88 |
| Resistance to officers | 58.04 |
| Malicious mischief | 41.69 |
| Threats | 39.77 |
| Assaults | 31.27 |