Excerpt from Serious Crime in an Indian Province: Being a Record of the Graver Crimes Committed in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh During Eleven Years
In the following pages I have tried to give a record of the graver crime which has been committed and reported within the North-Western Provinces and Oudh during eleven years, 1876 to 1886. This period includes two years, 1877 and 1878, in which the greater part of the population suffered acutely for a time from a failure of crops within the province, aggravated by the high prices caused by the famine in the Deccan and the south of India. Scarcity and distress swell the crime-register. But for this very reason the record, which these eleven years present, is rendered more illustrative and useful. The influence of the seasons upon certain classes of crime, not only from year to year, but also from month to month, is as distinct as is their influence upon the birth-rate.
The distribution of the population also has an influence upon the commoner crimes, house-breaking and theft. Where a district is very densely populated, and also has proportionately a large town population, there are more cases of house-breaking and theft than in a neighbouring district, sparsely populated, and having a small urban population.
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