Suicide : an essay on comparative moral statistics / by Henry Morselli.

  • Enrico Morselli
Date:
1881
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    inclination to crime shows itself in its greatest in- tensity towards the age of 23 or 24, and goes on from thence gradually diminishing up to extreme old age, con- trary to what happens to the suicidal tendency. We might produce confirmation of this antagonism from the statistics of Italian convicts, of whom 45*7 per cent, are between 20 and 30 years of age, and from those of England and Austria, of whom only 42*5 per cent, are of the same age ; but we will confine ourselves to bringing forward from Quetelet and Drobisch the comparison relating to suicides and criminals in France, both because it is the most homogeneous and numerous aggregate of facts, and be- cause the exactitude and uniform source of the statistics, combined with the character of the legislation, give a greater certainty and importance to the results. Table XXXI.—Antagonism hetiveen Suicide and Crime. ^According to Ages and Sex in France), Convicted 1826-44 Suicides 1835-44 Ages Per million inhab. Relative numbers per cent. Per million inhab. Relative numbers per cent. M. F Cor. av. M. F 0- 2 10-6 32-7 23-9 17-5 ■ 8-8 5-0 1- 2 0-1 Cor. av. M. 1-3 28-6 64-5 78'i 102-8 106-7 126-0 148-6 147-5 F. 0-4 15-5 22-5 ^1-9 32-2 38-1 45- 3 48-7 46- 6 Total av. M. F. Total av. Under 16 years . From 16 to 21 years . „ 21 „ 25 „ . „ 25 „ 30 „ „ 30 „ 35 „ „ 35 „ 40 „ „ 40 „ 45 „ „ 45 „ 50 „ „ 50 „ 55 ,, „ 55 „ 60 „ „ 60 „ 65 „ „ 65 „ 70 „ „ 70 „ 80 „ „ 80 and upwards 3-8 237 274 250 227 182 146 111 80 61 50 38 23 8 0-6 36 59 52 43 38 32 27 17 13 11 6 4 0-3 339 4-5 277 338 ) 307 [ 274] 223 [ 181 [ 140 1 97) 75} 62) 45; 27 88 2,059 0- 2 14- 0 31-0 24-2 15- 2 8-3 5-2 1- 4 0-5 0- 2 13-5 31-3 24-1 15-6 8-3 5-2 1- 3 0-4 1*7 44-1 87-0 100-0 135-0 144-8 171-3 197-3 194-1 0-2 3-6 8- 0 9- 7 12- 8 13- 3 15-9 18-5 18-3 0-1 5-7 8-3 8*1 11-9 14-0 16- 7 18-0 17- 2 0-2 4-1 8*1 9*3 12-6 13*5 15-9 18-4 18-0 Totals. 1,691 100'0 iooo 100*0 804*3 271*2 1,075 TOO'O iooo 100*0 In a period in which the tendency to suicide was greatest at above 70 years of age, among men as well as