Homicide ... ... ... ... p.c. p.c. p.c. p.c. p.c. Murder(and robbery with homicide) 14 I i 10 3 7 6 Parricide ...... ... ... ... -- 5 --8 7 5 9 Infanticide ... ... ... ... -- I --4 -- 6 Imprisonment ... ... ... ... -- -- -- Wilful wounding (followed by death) -- 19 24 -- 3 S Abortion ...... ... ... ... -- -- -- 1-I Rape and indecent assault on adults} -- 1'2 '' '' children} -- lo 7 t 3 7 11 Resistance to and attacks on public functionaries ... ... ... --5 --6 -- 3 Incendiarism -- -- --2 3-7 3 1 False money .. .. .. . 14 -- I 3-7 2 5 Forgery in public and private docu- ments ...... ... ... ... -- 5 --2 -- 2 --1 Extortion, highway robbery with violence ... ... ... ... 14 9 7 -- 3w 6 Specified and simple theft ... 14 19 16 41 51 Unintentional wounding ... 28 5 2 -- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Total of condemned and accused 7 179 475 27 641 The French statistics for the tribunals--no complete Italian statistics being available, are as follows:-- FRANCE--1886. CORRECTIONAL TRIBUNALS. le. Female. Offences. Underl6. I6--21 Underl6.1 16--21 per cenl. Per cenc. per cent. per cent. Resistance to authorities ... ... 2 2 2 'I 1 1 Assaults on public functionaries --8 5 --7 4 1 Vagrancy ... ... .-- 4 4 11 2 3 2 S'S Mendicity ... ... ... 4 8 4 12'- 3 6 wilful wounding ... ... ... 5 1 18-5 3@0 11 Unintentional wounding ... 8 7 I Offences against public decency .. 1 6 1 8 3 1 3 > Defamation and abuse - I '2 1 1 1 0 Theft ... ... ... ... ... 57 5 a--4 63 54 3 Frauds on refreshment-house keepers --I 2 I --I 6 Swindling 5 1 2 2.4 3 +2 Breach of confidence ... ... 9 1 3 7 1 2 Injury to crops and plants ... 5 --3 --3 5 Game-law offences .. ... .-- 15 1 14 2 1 l --2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Total of accused <p 35> Here we have a statistical demonstration of a more frequent precocity, amongst various forms of criminality, in respect of inborn tendencies (murder and homicide, rape, incendiarism, specific thefts), or in respect of tendencies contracted by habit (simple theft, mendicity, vagrancy). Also this characteristic of precocity is accompanied by that of relapse, which accordingly we have seen to be more frequent in the same forms of natural criminality, and which we can now tabulate in respect of its persistency in these born and habitual criminals.