The Criminal & the Community

The majority of persons in prison there because of their poverty-- Poverty and drink--Poverty and petty offences--Poverty and thrift-- Poverty and destitution--Case of theft fro...

The universal cure-all--The public and the advertising healer--The essence of all quackery--The quackery of punishment--Rational treatment--Justice not bad temper--Retribution--...

The inexperience of youth--The training of boys--Case of a truant-- Another case--Intractability--The foolishness of parent and teacher-- The absence of mutual understanding--Re...

Reception of the prisoner--Cleanliness and order--The plan of the prison--The cells--Their furniture--The diet--The clothing--Work--The workshops--Separate confinement and assoc...

The position of woman--The posturing of men--Love and crime--Two cases of theft from sexual attraction--The female thief--Case-- Blackmailing--Jealousy and crime--Two murder cas...

The Borstal experiment--Provisions for the "reformation of young offenders"--Is any diminution in the numbers of police expected?-- Preventive detention--The implied confession...

What is required--The case of the minor offenders--The incidence of fines--The prevention of drunkenness--Clubs--Probation of offenders-- Its partial application--Defects in its...

Insanity and responsibility--Removal of the insane from prison--Crime resulting from insanity--Case of theft--Of embezzlement--Of fire-raising--Insanity and murder charges--The...

The offender who has become reckless--If not killed they must be kept--The failure of the institution--Boarding out--At present they are boarded out on liberation, but without s...

Drink commonly accredited with the production of crime--Minor offences usually committed under its influence--Drink a factor in the causation of most crimes against the person--...

The sick--Prison hospitals--The removal of the sick to outside hospitals--The wisdom of this course--The essential difference between a prison and other public institutions--The...

Classification of criminals--The treatment of the criminal not a medical but a social question--Technical differences between crimes and offences--Changes in the law--Vice and c...

The millionaire and the pauper--Ill-feeling and misunderstanding-- Social ambitions--Case of embezzlement--Preaching and practice-- Gambling--The desire to "get on"--The need to...

His condition--His need--Alleged persecution of ex-prisoners-- Discharged prisoners' aid societies--Work--Temptations--The discharged female offender--The attitude of women towa...

dressings and medicines that were required. It is not part of his duty to see every prisoner before the court begins. Occasionally people are sent to prison who should never hav...

The need to find out why people do wrong before attempting to cure them--Enquiries as to inebriety--The inebriates--Official utterances--Cost and results--The grievance of the u...

Before the year 1877 all the Scottish prisons, with the exception of the Penitentiary at Perth, were under the control and management of the local authorities. One result was th...

The police and their duties--Divided control--Need for knowledge of local peculiarities--The fear of "corruption"--The police cell-- Cleanliness and discomfort--Insufficient pro...

The stranger most likely to offend--The reaction to new surroundings--The difficulty of recovery--The attraction of the city--The Churches and the immigrant--Benevolent associat...

The basis of the family not necessarily a blood tie--Adoption--The head and the centre of the family--The feeling of joint responsibility--The black sheep--Companionship and sym...

Does heredity account for one quality more than another?-- Impossibility of forecasting the conduct of others--Do criminals breed criminals?--The fit and the unfit--Unequal endo...

The reliability of prisoners' statements--Deceit or misunderstanding?--Frankness and knowledge required on the part of the investigator--The prisoner's statement should form the...

Just as some degree of mental deficiency is not incompatible with the ability to live a peaceable and useful life, physical defects do not necessarily unfit a man to discharge h...

The majority of persons in prison there because of their poverty--Poverty and drink--Poverty and petty offences-- Poverty and thrift--Poverty and destitution--Case of theft from...

The Borstal experiment--Provisions for the "reformation of young offenders"--Is any diminution in the numbers of police expected?--Preventive detention--The implied confession t...

The universal cure-all--The public and the advertising healer--The essence of all quackery--The quackery of punishment--Rational treatment--Justice not bad temper-- Retribution-...

Drink commonly accredited with the production of crime-- Minor offences usually committed under its influence-- Drink a factor in the causation of most crimes against the person...

The offender who has become reckless--If not killed they must be kept--The failure of the institution--Boarding out--At present they are boarded out on liberation, but without s...

The sick--Prison hospitals--The removal of the sick to outside hospitals--The wisdom of this course--The essential difference between a prison and other public institutions--The...

The inexperience of youth--The training of boys--Case of a truant--Another case--Intractability--The foolishness of parent and teacher--The absence of mutual understanding-- Rec...

The position of woman--The posturing of men--Love and crime--Two cases of theft from sexual attraction--The female thief--Case--Blackmailing--Jealousy and crime--Two murder case...

Classification of criminals--The treatment of the criminal not a medical but a social question--Technical differences between crimes and offences--Changes in the law--Vice and c...

The basis of the family not necessarily a blood tie-- Adoption--The head and the centre of the family--The feeling of joint responsibility--The black sheep-- Companionship and s...

The police and their duties--Divided control--Need for knowledge of local peculiarities--The fear of "corruption"--The police cell--Cleanliness and discomfort--Insufficient prov...

Insanity and responsibility--Removal of the insane from prison--Crime resulting from insanity--Case of theft--Of embezzlement--Of fire-raising--Insanity and murder charges--The...

The reliability of prisoners' statements--Deceit or misunderstanding?--Frankness and knowledge required on the part of the investigator--The prisoner's statement should form the...

The stranger most likely to offend--The reaction to new surroundings--The difficulty of recovery--The attraction of the city--The Churches and the immigrant--Benevolent associat...

The need to find out why people do wrong before attempting to cure them--Enquiries as to inebriety--The inebriates-- Official utterances--Cost and results--The grievance of the...

Does heredity account for one quality more than another?--Impossibility of forecasting the conduct of others--Do criminals breed criminals?--The fit and the unfit--Unequal endow...

Reception of the prisoner--Cleanliness and order--The plan of the prison--The cells--Their furniture--The diet--The clothing--Work--The Workshops--Separate confinement and assoc...

What is required--The case of the minor offenders--The incidence of fines--The prevention of drunkenness--Clubs-- Probation of offenders--Its partial application--Defects in its...

The millionaire and the pauper--Ill-feeling and misunderstanding--Social ambitions--Case of embezzlement-- Preaching and practice--Gambling--The desire to "get on"-- The need to...

His condition--His need--Alleged persecution of ex-prisoners--Discharged prisoners' aid societies--Work-- Temptations--The discharged female offender--The attitude of women towa...