CRIME AND TEMPERATURE.
The marked increase in crimes of violence during liotvweather in Europe this. year, (says tho "Soutli Australian Reporter") seems to lend support to tlio theory that crimo increases as tlio thermometer rises.-' A few years ago Mr. Edwin Grant Dexter, an American scientist, prepared a chart showing tho relation between crime and the thermometer, as tested by . seven years' records-. This chart represents the maximum qf criminal assaults as occurring at. a tompcraturo of from 80 dog, to 85 deg. With tho fall'of temperature the criminal's energy decreases, reaching its average at 55 deg. to 60 deg. and its lowest point at from 5 deg. to 10 deg. It is interesting to note • that, according to Mr. Dexter's observations, periods of tho most intense heat are as freo. from crime as periods of extremo cold. Other instructive conclusions are that exccssivo humidity is as productive of crime as extremo heat; that low atmospheric pressure preceding a storm keeps the policeman busy,'and that women are far more sensitive ;than men to changes of temperature.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 279, 18 August 1908, Page 6
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176CRIME AND TEMPERATURE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 279, 18 August 1908, Page 6
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