Very much in the printed page has been aimed wide of the mark alike of the prevention, the deterrence, and the reclamation of the predal felon. It is intended that this semi-technical volume shall help to call the truly reformative turn. Also, the intention is that the subject matter of the book shall at once amplify and reënforce conclusions reached in The Crime Problem and Stop Thief! the author’s previous publications. A distinctively scientific treatise on crime and criminals is not essayed

TYPAL EARMARKS Criminal types there are, but there is no one criminal type. Closely-allied criminous expression is vastly different as to individual intent. That will be so because the underlying causes for like offenders are dissimilar and variable. The height of the offense usually squares with the depth of depravity, the which is no respector of facial or other deviations from the Apollo type. Jails would be more numerous than churches, were natural criminals surely shadowed forth in visible

THE CRIMINAL MIND Large contentions less avail than instances observed. Kipling. Rudyard Kipling has been an adjustable man among men. His evenly-balanced mind has sized the stature of his fellows. He has nursed no crotchets by which to be betrayed into half-baked “contentions.” He has painted with pat regard for time, place, and individuals, whether the latter wore nose rings or royal purple. He has not debased a broad culture in hectic pursuit of dollars. He has stuck to a staunch last and str

THE MORAL CRIMINAL Dr. Adler says there are 10,000,000 feeble-minded people in our country. Well, well: it isn’t as bad as we thought. Passaic News. Crime is commonly imaged as felonious offense committed against the public law. Definitions of the word “crime” are likewise restricted in meaning. The common idea of crime is natural, and the legal definition of it is necessary, albeit crime reaches far beyond casual views and word-analysis. In the final sieving, anything that abets, suggests or ex

THE PSYCHIATRIST Webster defines psychology as “The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic and scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, in so far as they are known to consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.” Modified by the phrase, “in so far as they are known to consciousness,” that definition will do, albeit we have arrived at but little “knowledge” of the “ powers and functions of the human soul ,” and at less of prescience that accounts for th

THE CRIMINOLOGIST Criminology is the one scientific field in which man, puffed up, putters with unskilled hand and brain. Even the artisan and manipulator of inanimate objects, must win his journeyman’s card. No such thing is demanded of the criminologist by the public; hence the public is seldom treated to the unvarnished criminological truth. Commonly the bald creatures of political pull, correctional chiefs need bear with them to profound employment but an itch to dabble, and the nerve to fla

LINKS IN THE CHAIN OF CRIME Of “Bogy,” early-day champion telegrapher of the United States, it was alleged by those of his craft: “It’s Bogy here, Bogy there, Bogy almost anywhere.” Blessed with an alert, incisive brain naturally coördinated with the quickest of terminal reflexes, Bogy was drawn to the key when even “duplex” telegraphy was a far-removed possibility. Also, he was rated an electrician when the “Electrical World” issued a fourpage sheet dotted with elementary diagrams and analyses,

CHAMOIS-SKIN CRIMINOLOGISTS Chamois-skin is softest of leather made of the skin of the chamois. The chamois abides on the loftiest ridges of the Alps and Pyrenees. Roaming those mountains, he employs unusual keenness and scope of vision, and displays singular agility in leaping from crag to crag, on which he lands non-skidding hoofs. Otherwise, the little climber’s means of defense are negligible. While fleet of foot, he is at the mercy, in their domain, of long-toothed hunters endowed with the

“EXCESS PROPHETS” We are beridden by excess prophets. Washington Star. Nature builds some men bigger than any office or title. Theodore Roosevelt was such a man, whose wont it was to coin cutting saws such as, “The shots that hit are the shots that count.” Taken for what it was meant to convey, that epigram needs no champion; yet the implied negative of it may or may not hold water. That will depend upon the ratio of hits to misses. Missed shots prolong conflict, multiply fatalties, and pile up

CRIME AND THE LAY CRITIC “Boast not of happiness until you reach the last day of your life,” Croesus admonished Solon, the code builder of ancient Athens. “For the condemned I entertain but little blame, and for the good but scant praise,” echoes a lady, who would direct us from the hill of vision how to reform, rather than punish criminals. Casual comparison discloses little of kin between the admonition and declaration quoted; yet they shoot from the same trunk, if not from the same branch. Bo

PRISON DISCIPLINE Not one in ten thousand digs to the deep meaning of the word “discipline.” Particularly as to prison application, discipline is in the minds of the great majority as measures objectively imposed to compel subjective adjustment to house rules and regulations laid down. Such contracted view covers only so much of primary compulsion as may be necessary to imbue refractory criminals with at least fearsome respect for correctional measures. Thereafter, the aim should be to enlist th

PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CRIMINAL “ Worthy to be a rebel; for to that the multiplying villainies of Nature do swarm upon him. ” Macbeth: Act 1: Scene 1. Matter of the preceding chapters touches the mental crotchets of criminals with reference to given courses of conduct by given types of criminals. Though to do so is always precarious, something approaching general statement must be employed to demarcate different grades of lawbreakers; yet attempt to classify criminals and keep them classified, must,

SUMMARY Suspended sentences; probation; discharges; quashing of indictments; bail under bond, pending trial for ominous crimes; and early paroles from prison houses are now stretched far beyond the practice of previous years. Schemes for lifting social blight from backsliders have been broadened and quickened notably during recent decades. Children’s courts of probation constantly have risen in numbers, and the gratuitous offices of ever-increasing thousands of laymen and women nobly second serv