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Four Thou Mind Hunlm i l»r In It*l/Mont VlulfDt of Civilised Coiiotrle*.A homicide occurs ©very two boor* 111 Italy. This wav out of the many startling statement* made by Baron C4aro-falo, a distinguished Italian criminologist, in a lecture deliveied on “Criminality in Relation to the Education of the People” ill the Roman college. His andienee include*! tjueeti Margherita.In Italy the annual loss of life by homicide (usually by lethal weapons) numbers atmnt 4,000 souls. Compared with France, for instance, she has 10 homicides a year for Prance’a 1, and 85 for Denmark'* 1. The Latin population*, indeed, in both hemisphere* have a bad pre-eminence over the Teutonic in crime generally, and of these Latin population* the Italian is the worst.Baron Garofalo proceeded to give the reason* w by. In the first place, vendetta, which in Greece was heroism and in mediaeval Europe a laudable cum torn, has lingered longer in Italy than in any other country; dueling, also, is more frequent in Italy than elsewhere. To the religions instruction given in Great Britain and the United States of America he attributed the fact that these countries have in 40 years diminished by one-half the annual proportion of their delinquents and mendicants, while 111 Italy the want of similar instruction has resulted in the positive increase of delinquency and mendicancy since 1862. When to these considerations we add the increased hardness of living in the yotiug kingdom, the strain put upon the moral resisting power by a crushing poverty, the squalid dwellings, the defective alimentation, by which the brain is starved, when it is not actually poisoned, by the stimulants in which relief from misery is sought, and the depreciation of life as it exists under such conditions, we arrive at an ensemble of causes which quite accounts for these sad statistics.
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East Liverpool Evening News Review
East Liverpool, Ohio, US
Thu, Apr 02, 1896
Page 4
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