Drinking and Criminality in the Netherlands

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A survey was carried out with the help of directors and social workers in penal institutes on the relations between alcohol and crime in the Netherlands. The histories of 564 inmates of common penal institutes and 285 inmates of psychopathic asylums were investigated. The first number covers about 10 percent of the total population of all penal institutes on a certain moment, the last number concerns the total population of a certain institute. Among the inmates of common penal institutes a relation between the last offence and alcohol was found in 20 percent of the cases and in 10.6 percent between a former offence and alcohol. For the inmates of the psychopathic asylum those figures were respectively 16.5 and 4.2 percent. An analysis was made of the drinking habits of both groups. 19% of the inmates of common penal institutes did not drink at all, but 68.8% of those of the inmates of the psychopathic asylum did. The psychopaths tend to extremes. They show the highest percentage of alcohol addicts among the users of alcohol and also the highest percentage non-drinkers. Tables give an insight of age-classes and types of offences in the different age-classes. Comparative figures are given about unmarried persons in the general population compared to criminal alcoholics and alcoholic patients in different age-classes.

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