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The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work Among Them

Chapter III

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CAUSES OF CRIME.

Preventible and Non-preventible—Ignorance—Numbers of Illiterates in City Prisons and Reformatories—Orphanage—Statistics—Orphans in Mettrai—Emigration—Effect in Producing Crime—Numbers of Prisoners of Foreign Births—Figures—Hopeful Features—Fewer Paupers Immigrate—Want of Trade—Selfishness of Unions—Aversion to Steady Industry..pp. 32-38

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