OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "The science of criminology is pursued vigorously among the Italians, but this is one of the first English books to make the phenomena of crime the subject of a strictly scientific investigation."— Daily Chronicle . "The book is an important addition to the Social Science Series. It throws light upon some of the most complex problems with which society has to deal, and incidentally affords much interesting reading."— Manchester Examiner . "This is a work which, considering

This volume, as its title indicates, is occupied with an examination of some of the principal causes of crime, and is designed as an introduction to the study of criminal questions in general. In spite of all the attention these questions have hitherto received and are now receiving, crime still remains one of the most perplexing and obstinate of social problems. It is much more formidable than pauperism, and almost as costly. A social system which has to try hundreds of thousands of offenders a

APPENDIX I. Form suggested by Herr Krohne to be filled up by the police or other agency respecting prisoners for trial. APPENDIX II. Growth of Reformatory and Industrial School Population in England and Scotland. APPENDIX III. Return showing the number of Prisoners committed to the Local Prisons of England and Wales in each Month of the Year ended 31st March, 1890....