=========+=====================================+================== Years. | Thefts. | Price of Cereals. +-----------------+-------------------+ | With Violence. | Without Violence. | ---------+-----------------+-------------------+------------------ | | | Sh. d. 1857 | 6471 | 43,397 | 42 10 1858 | 5723 | 45,618 | 43 11 1859 | 4433 | 41,370 | 43 8 1860 | 4065 | 41,151 | 52 9 1861 | 5062 | 40,242 | 55 4 1862 | 5746 | 40,191 | 55 5 1863 | 5433 | 39,801 | 44 9 1864 | 5022 | 39,481 | 40 2 1865 | 5160 | 40,383 | 41 10 1866 | 5088 | 39,731 | 43 10 1867 | 6355 | 46,502 | 49 10 =========+=================+===================+================== Here there is some agreement between the number of thefts and prices. But it is not as great as Fuld would make out. For example, notwithstanding the sudden rise on prices in 1860, criminality diminished, while the year following there was a still further fall in the thefts without violence. Prussia. =========+==================+================ Years. | Thefts of Wood. | Price of Rye. ---------+------------------+---------------- | | Sgr. Pf. 1862 | 387,000 | 63.10 1863 | 354,276 | 54.3 1864 | 366,667 | 45.6 1865 | 426,336 | 49.11 1866 | 425,551 | 58.5 1867 | 412,165 | 79.0 1868 | 419,158 | 78.8 1869 | 406,662 | 64.7 1870 | 389,746 | 62.3 1871 | 439,288 | 66.0 1872 | 401,280 | 82.0 1873 | 337,112 | 93.0 1874 | 356,859 | 108.0 =========+==================+================ We can indeed find here some agreement between the two columns, but that is all that can be said. Then the author says that differences in price are not as great as formerly, on account of the development of international commerce. He gives a table of comparative prices from 1870 to 1879 which shows that five staples show no consistent movement in price. But during the same period theft was continually on the increase. The number of male delinquents from 18 to 50 alone varies with prices; the figures for delinquents between 50 and 60 follow the course of prices but slightly. Other economic crimes show little conformity.