. The literary digest. rue that the proportion of twelve homicides toevery 100,000 inhabitants in the United States is in startling con-trast to the statistics of England, Scotland, and Germany, it isnot so when compared with those of countries not so highly civil-ized as the latter, such, for instance, as Italy, Spain, Austria, andHungary, over which the United States have a notable advan-tage. Lombroso declares that homicidal statistics of the United Statesare not the same as those in Europe, because, under the laws ofdifferent States, all crimes resulting in death are counted ashomicides. A
. The literary digest. rue that the proportion of twelve homicides toevery 100,000 inhabitants in the United States is in startling con-trast to the statistics of England, Scotland, and Germany, it isnot so when compared with those of countries not so highly civil-ized as the latter, such, for instance, as Italy, Spain, Austria, andHungary, over which the United States have a notable advan-tage. Lombroso declares that homicidal statistics of the United Statesare not the same as those in Europe, because, under the laws ofdifferent States, all crimes resulting in death are counted ashomicides. And in the older States, like Massachusetts, wherethere are more reliable statistics distinguishing between arrestsand deaths, and there is a pure judiciary, the figures show asection almost as free from homicides as the most enlightenedcountries of Europe. Nevertheless, he considers that, as awhole, homicides are so portentous an evil here that the causesshould be pointed out. Vol. XVI., No. 5] THE LITERARY DIGEST. 125.
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