CHAPTER I DRINK AND CRIME

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--Double personality caused by drink--Drunken cruelty--Drunken rage--Assaults on the drunken--Sexual offences--Child neglect--Mental defect behind the drunkenness of some offenders--Malicious mischief and theft--Drunken kleptomania--The professional criminal and drink--Thefts from the drunken--Amount of crime not in ratio to amount of drinking in a district--The vice existent apart from crime, in the country--And in the wealthier parts of the city--Drunkenness and statistics-- Summary 51-66