Note 9 — Chapter XX · FROM KRASNOIARSK TO ALEXANDREFFSKY.

The statistics of crime in the okrug, in the year 1878, revealed that, of 182 criminals, not one was less than 17 years of age; 26 men and 5 women were between 17 and 21; but the greatest number of criminals—63 men and 20 women.—were of ages ranging from 21 to 33; after which the numbers of men became fewer as they grew older, but there was not a similar decrease in the number of older women. Below the ages of 45 and 70 there were more women criminals than men. It appeared, too, that there were 129 married criminals as against 53 unmarried. Again, 112 were of the Russian Church, 19 of other Christian denominations, 34 were Jews, and 17 of other non-Christian religions. Further, 157 were criminals for the first offence, 22 for the same offence once repeated, and 3 for the same offence twice repeated. This last fact compares favourably with our English criminal statistics, which show many who go in and out of prison a hundred times. I have spoken elsewhere of the long-period prisoners having sometimes to wait in durance for their trial. This may often be avoided by furnishing bail. In 1878 there were in Kansk 415 on bail as against 96 under detention. Of these, 88 were found innocent, 93 were dismissed as “not proven,” and 147 sent elsewhere for trial; whilst of those found guilty, 7 only were condemned to the mines, 26 to hard labour in prison, and the remaining 149 to a “house of detention.”