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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: Out of 222,492 sentences in the Police Courts, 4,499 were
conditional, and there were 45 relapses.
These 13,195 conditional sentences included 8,485 for crimes and
offences under the penal code; 2,286 for breaches of police
regulations; 447 for breaches of communal and provincial
regulations; and 1,977 for contraventions of special laws.
The crimes and offences for which these sentences have been most
frequently pronounced are as follows:--
Correctional. Police.
Malicious Wounding ... ... ... ... ... 3,339 ... 491
Thefts, &c ... ... ... ... ... ... 1,803 ... 206
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