Abstract
Chicago, the second largest city in the United States, has shared and perhaps has even surpassed the first city, New York, in its newspaper-made notoriety as a city of iniquity and the gathering place and hunting-ground of the lawless. In a previous study of the trend of crime in New York City2 for the period from 1916 to 1936 it was shown that there was a decrease in the number of arrests as well as in the ratio of the arrests to the male population aged sixteen years and upward. The present study arises out of the desire to ascertain whether the downward trend observed for New York
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