ABSTRACT
Many contradictory statements have been made about the criminality of the Jews, most of them based on general impressions of the writers. The larger number of Jews and Poles in Russian prisons is the result of their intense participation in the revolutionary movement. A considerable literature has been produced within the fifty years on the subject of the criminology of the Jews. Uniformity of political and social conditions for centuries has been effective in determining to a certain extent the choice of occupations of the Jews. The criminology of the Jews, in as much as it differs from conditions among others, can be summarized as caused by the special conditions under which they live. The differences are mainly due to the fact that they are town-dwellers, whose chief occupations are commerce, industry, and finance, and in some countries to their political disabilities.
