The Criminal & the Community

CHAPTER II HEREDITY AND CRIME

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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 endowments--Ability and position--Inherited faculties and social pressure--Crime the result of wrongly directed powers--Original sin and heredity--Heredity behind everything 18-23