Note 118 — CRIMINALITY.
Henry P. (Henry Pomeroy) Horton translation
I am of the opinion that the statistics which I have quoted,118 including, as they do, millions of criminals, are very significant: the illiterates supply, in general, a great proportion of the criminals, a proportion much greater than that of the illiterates in the general population. (In countries with a relatively small number of illiterates, like England, the Netherlands, and Prussia, for example, the difference is naturally much greater than in a country like Italy where the percentage of illiteracy is great. In Prussia for instance, there are thirty-six times as many illiterates among the recidivists as among the recruits.)