Criminality and economic conditions

I. Thomas More 1 II. Jean Meslier 7 III. J. J. Rousseau 8 IV. Morelly 9 V. C. Beccaria 10 VI. S. N. H. Linguet 10 VII. P. H. D. d’Holbach 13 VIII. G. B. de Mably 14 IX. J. P. Br...

I. A. M. Guerry 30 II. Ad. Quetelet 31 III. Edw. Ducpetiaux 33 IV. L. M. Moreau-Christophe 37 V. G. Mayr 38 VI. A. Corne 47 VII. H. Von Valentini 50 VIII. A. Von Oettingen 53 IX...

I. F. Turati 210 II. B. Battaglia 214 III. N. Colajanni 220 IV. A. Bebel 227 V. P. Lafargue 229 VI. H. Denis 235 VII. H. Lux 237 VIII. P. Hirsch 241

A. Definition of Crime 377 B. The Origin of Egoistic Acts in General 381 C. Egoistic Tendencies Resulting from the Present Economic System and its Consequences 401 a. The Presen...

At the National Conference of Criminal Law and Criminology, held in Chicago, at Northwestern University, in June, 1909, the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology wa...

“It chanced on a certain day, when I sat at the Cardinal’s table, there was also a certain lay man cunning in the laws of your realm. Who, I cannot tell whereof taking occasion,...

In his “Essai sur la statistique morale de la France”, the author has made a study of the influence of age, sex, season, education, etc., upon criminality. But there is scarcely...

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is the first in which we find any observations especially interesting to us. By the aid of data from von Oettingen, Starke, Corre, and Fornasari di Verce, which we treat separat...

While the Italian school reigned supreme at the first congress of criminal anthropology at Rome, Professor Lacassagne opposed it with his so-called “hypothesis of the environmen...

I cannot better give Professor Prins’s opinion upon the subject of my work than by quoting what he says in his book, “Criminalité et répression”, and especially in his first cha...

It is in the second chapter of his “France criminelle”, bearing the title of “Richesse et misère”, that the author gives his opinion of the connection between criminality and ec...

In the first chapter of his “Il delitto e la questione sociale”, the author shows that among the numerous misfortunes from which the proletariat suffers, this must be reckoned,...

Having come to the end of my exposition, I have still to sum up the different chapters. As we have seen, a very small proportion of the authors who have taken up the subject, de...

In order to provide for his needs man has always been obliged to work, and this work has always depended upon the physical environment and especially upon the means of productio...

After a long and difficult struggle against feudalism the bourgeoisie, the class possessing the means of production, came out victorious. It has grown and become more powerful,...

As between the two commonplaces, “There have always been poor people”, and “The present institution of marriage springs from human nature itself and is as old as society”, it is...

financial reasons, which brings it about that the men often indemnify themselves with prostitutes. But this is applicable also to those cases where the marriage has not been mad...

Before leaving the causes of the demand for prostitutes there is one further matter to consider. Those who have recourse to prostitutes must necessarily have a low opinion of wo...

many persons have pecuniary interests in it. Without this many women would never have become prostitutes or would not have remained such, and the opportunity for a man to procur...

We understand by alcoholism the social phenomenon which consists of the chronic abuse of alcoholic beverages. [447] Before touching upon the etiology of this phenomenon we must...

the etiology of alcoholism in three ways. In the first place, the regular use of small quantities of alcohol may, with the said persons, result in alcoholism. Secondly, quantiti...

We may be very brief upon the correlation of militarism and the present economic system. This correlation is so clear that there are few persons who deny it. The motives which,...

Crime belongs to the category of punishable acts. However, as the term is applicable to only a part of such acts, it is necessary to be more exact. The best way to do this, in m...

independent factor, but dependent upon others. In our present society, with its pronounced egoistic tendencies, imitation strengthens these, as it would strengthen the altruisti...

It is necessary to divide these crimes into separate groups. Notwithstanding their partial similarity they differ too much among themselves to be treated together. I propose to...

Most authors who treat of the correlation between criminality and economic conditions, have devoted their attention to economic crimes especially, and have had little or nothing...

Besides economic, sexual, and political criminality, there is still a fourth category of crimes, the motives of which are quite diverse. We shall treat, A. Crimes from vengeance...

The origin of the state, and the possibility of political crimes, are bound up with a certain phase of the development of the economic life, that is to say with the origin of ma...

So far we have been examining crime in its relation to the economic and social environment. We have not been able to discover the existence of individual factors; the celebrated...

What are the conclusions to be drawn from what has gone before? When we sum up the results that we have obtained it becomes plain that economic conditions occupy a much more imp...