CHAPTER I THE CRIMINAL AND THE CRIMINOLOGISTS

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 crime--The beginner in crime--Common characters of the "criminal class"--Atrocious crimes exceptional--So-called scientific studies of the criminal--How figures mislead-- Composite photographs and averages--Estimate of character from physical examination--Causal relationship to crime of these characters _pages_ 3-17