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