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Wid e o f the ma rk alike of the p revention the deter ,
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C O N TE N TS
C HA P TER
TY P A L EA R MA R K S
TH E C R IMIN A L M IN D
TH E M O R A L C R IMIN A L
TH E P S Y CHI A TR IS T
TH E C R IMIN O L O GIS T
L IN K S IN TH E C H A IN O! C R IM E
C H A M OI s —
S INK C R IMIN OL O G IS T S
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E X C E SS P R O P H ET S
C R IM E A N D TH E LA Y C R I TI C
P R IS O N D ISCI P L IN E
P S Y C HO LO GY AND TH E C R IMIN A L
S UMM A R Y
C R I M I N A L TY P E S
T YPA L E AR MARKS
c riminal typ e
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the ape s fuzzy hairline the same fuzzy hai r ext end
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queer th e deal rathe r than be p arty to a killing .
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the l ay t o go out and get the goods s o mewhere , ,
when he bungles .
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In any ca se it i s E asy c ome easy go with the
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o rder .
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and it i s clever a s seen from the cri minal s point ’
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Right here hides the nigger in the woodpile
the thief i s sentenced merely to se rve time withou t ,
ment ru ns ?
What the deterrence i n a compa ratively short
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hearts and natu ral predilectio ns ? W hy wouldn t
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immediate restituti on o f planted l oot not o nly ;
but the s entence should further amerce to a fine o f
the unpaid balance t o be worked o u t usually in
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them .
do w n and under .
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ti on is i n the time o f youth and the o cca sion the , ,
bato ry parole .
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take a fi y er here and there at his c raft espe ,
the crook .
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a cco rdingly the finest be times get him ; and when
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courts o f law ?
The above p artition of the p redal crew i s fa r
from fi nal eithe r a s to selectio n o f tools o r th e man
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the supp osedly les ser line o f resistan ce t o eas y
mon ey .
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everybo dy gave him the wo rst of it and declares ,
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type most likely eithe r to overlap o r underlap ,
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pon ies is held up then th rown down by the girl
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a ct a s starkers f o r the active agents o f cert ain
labo r unions Nee dles s t o add down -and-o u t ex
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they must be met with America s co ncent rated p ower ,
p ervading while v er ,
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bandit to steer and help plunder such a s an in
ebriated plunger o r t o a s sist in a r oughly -en gineered
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between States .
it And then—flni s !
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selves in on the divi sio n o f c riminal sp oils When .
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the di v ision reaches to tho s e who p ull p olitic al
strings we hav e the ul ce rating stage of the cri minou s
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sive o f dames o f all va rieties o f thei r variety who ,
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And so afte r all the cho sen -p at h o f crimi nals i s
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fa r fro m rose st rewn B ig and little and les
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ser grafting and gambl ing flea s land o n thei r
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backs an d bite em ’
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ci rcl e
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he blimped on the bean with a blackj ack thi s o r
that wayfa rer bea rs i ntimate relation to the fol
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lowing count It does becau s e p romiscuous chat
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ter will hold up any kind of work C oncentration .
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play ha s been reduced the o n e to the level of the ,
degree by all .
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tion binds the contempt
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Aside from the fact that Hello B ill ! relations ,
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way the c riminologist must strik e the j ustifiable
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surfa ce sign s .
of c riminal .
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the y o ung by the camouflaged libertine who deals
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done at it he doesn t have t o gues s
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T HE C RI M INA L M IN D
L a rge i
c on t e n t o n s le ss av a il t han i n s t an ce s o bs e rv ed.
K ipli ng .
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by which t o be betray ed into half baked c o nt en -
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tio ns . H e h as painted with pat rega rd fo r time ,
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vine p rotagonists during the last three dec
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the beginning :
Whether the biblical account o f the killing o f
Abel by C ai n be taken as inspi red wri ting o r as ,
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subterfuge ; this cleverly betimes a s i n Cai n s
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and who seeks life s zest through matc hing wit s with
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Fine ! replies o u r man and adds : B ut how ,
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who fi rst gouged and got theirs ?
Y o u decla re that lin e o f argument doesn t cove r
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slacker s
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All ri ght rebuts T hief but why ring all o f
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o f hi s automati c.
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With s o ci al wolves it is again totally diff erent
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o rder .
loot .
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in America ? And by capital we do not mean t o ,
hates .
cu s ab le co olly —
, calculating menace to the so cial o rder
the wo rld ha s ever known He i s the mo st dangerou s
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wise he plays em all : the j udge ; the p atrolman ;
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he will double cro s s a ny o n e o r all i f he i s sure
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on y higher up spoilsmen w ho sacrifice criminal
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p awns .
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L a rgely be cau se o f such easily misleading tests -
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crooks .
vidual a n d ra ce p sychology .
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the lumbering clown bea r and monkey o n a stick
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pression .
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touts a nd members and ex members of the won t
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wo rk frat were at the ri ngside drawn as by an ,
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hono rables o f that kidney have o n th e c riminal
mind ? E ss entially how much have they taking into ,
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tal mo ral and physi cal h ayseeds of thei r day
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bea rs C i catri zed s ca rs o f th e swo rd s edge o r p oint ,
i s meant t o do n o mo re .
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merciless of wa r It i s be cause top notch fighters
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o f the seve ral weights a re rare bird s who a re pr a c
tically unbeatable i n their prime s o long as they h old,
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u sually a s go od a s li cked befo re t h ey enter the
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ring Therefo re the hund reds of ma rked would be
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cham pee ons who eke out a living s erv ing essen
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general turnove r o f business What s mo re import
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it would still be bad en ough ; but he doesn t he never ,
of eve ry man .
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she thinks it wa s wonde rfully spo rtsmanlike As .
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like about that brutal battle T here wa sn t if .
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ring a s ever known T hat alone spelled the count
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that he broke the thumb of hi s right hand in the fi rst
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round . Had he do ne s o he could not have ro cked
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D emp sey wit h that hand a s he did i n the sec o nd
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round .
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A s portsmanlike p ropositio n presumes a fai r
fighting chance fo r either contestant C arpentier .
seas .
D ame N ature off ers man gratis and bo untif ully out
o f her outstretched hands .
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t o realize that they are the mo ral keepers of His
chi ldren they will be held respon sible by Him fo r
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p oolro om .
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News is news yes ; also nasty news i s na sty news
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suggestion o f the c ri me —
breeding sexually -pe rverting
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N o ble sse o blig e L e t thos e on whom moral lead
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the bottom .
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i s the fou r u shing blood brother o f the hand me
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mel would have envied po ses about in a P a cka rd ,
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Six and wouldn t appear o n the st reet o n a bet
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ball t o the bawd And also the high finance fake
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s ch eme cult o f him alone dra w down a nnually close
to fi v e — hundred million dolla rs
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The bill i s paid .
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mongers m ay give thei r dupes the laugh .
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who elect at t he bes t t o play fo r thei r p ile a nd
make hard wo rking men a nd women foot the bill ; an d
at the w o rst to make every po s sible use at spu rious
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the p araphernali a of blood spilling pugs -
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i n the case .
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habitual pa rasites o f the pug va riety are held
up to the youth of the la nd by governmental hono r
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able S as exemplars o f all a lad should be and strive
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perhap s the fa ct that the women of th e hono rables
also stand sponso r fo r fi rst driving drones will do so
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and las sies with the ideals of the shoul dering hog ,
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same breed ?
The Ame r ican people have their work cu t o u t to
arrest that fo r which they have bidden put up put , ,
quackery .
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ing mad . America i s dangerously close to s po rting
mad . She will come o u t of that p articula r fo rm
o f nerve storm because she will have to do so S he .
gene ral well be ing In the other case the immo ral
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double cro sses even his fello w c raftsmen
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Well s ays the imprisoned felon of the stripe
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i n questi on what did big and little business men d o
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they not ?
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W ell did they or did they not ? If they di d
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what ha d th ey o n th e im pri soned felon o f the stripe
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i n question ? T hat s a live wire i s that question ;
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that doesn t squirm and doesn t quibble
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A s a dealer in th e world s mart c an you return
an honest answer If you canno t hadn t you better ,
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s cheme o f li f e .
clever criminals .
baked co ntentions .
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vi nced th at Catholic and Protestant ministers a re
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impugning m otives here and blackening ch aracter
there becau se they hav e lost thei r tempers at the dis
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i nclinatio n o f the pe o ple to follo w them .
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and character bla ckened with the devi l s ow n ’
them ?
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Hardly ! T rue Ameri cans of the p eople fo r
wh om the gentleman as sumes to s p eak wax fatuous , ,
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get the cut o f the saw o f the P assaic News .
T HE P SYCHIA T RIS T
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W ebster defines psychology a s The s cience o f
the hum an soul ; specifically the systemati c and s ci
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ness ; a treatise o n the human s oul .
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M odified by the phra se i n so fa r as they are
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kn own to c ons ciousness , that definitio n will do ,
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albe it we have a rri ved at but li ttle knowledge o f
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the powers and functions of the human soul and ,
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i s t ransfer o f nervous disease by imitation ; and
a ttuned t o the fa ct that the mode o f operating em
ployed with A w a s co the sunny -hearted compar a
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t iv ely ingenuous Wop a nxi ous to hel p won t do ’
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compl ex c rowdi ng c ri me
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circumstance .
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have in mind D r A Ja cobi s Repo rt t o the P ri son
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C ongres s of to the e ff ect that N 0 congenital
chroni c thi ckening of the b rain membranes n o ,
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syphiliti c perhap s have ever been cured
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i s indisputable fa ct qualified by the w ord cured
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without presumption disagree : ,It i s not necessary
t o res ort to material imp ressions ( in the emb ryoni c
state ) a s the cau se of physical i ntellectual and mo ral ,
si ons o f p sychi c o ri gi n ?
W e kno w that h ereditary t ransmission i s p ersis
tent a s to physical attributes I t may appea r t o
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i s fi nal ?
H ow by pu rely physical analysis ar e we to a o
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ment p ersi st with few devi ations and even then bre ed
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o n again ba ck t o o ri gi nal family manne rs ? Wh y ,
s ci o u s n es s ?
t rot ?
W ay b ack o f Civil W ar days a gentleman horse ,
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the pace r made hi s bo w to the ho rs e wo rld T o .
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through the G rand C i rcuit a nd almo s t surely
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em p loyed mainly to preven t b reaking ; i n fa ct ,
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ove r fol de rol o r fake the whole human s cheme ?
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sign s el f s eeking ex ,
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di sgust .
tened conclusions .
se rvation a nd t reatment
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,age s ixteen lowest grade imbecile and border
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S oldi er At the end of th ree months he wo rked
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ing of reflex action and if it does what o f it ? ,
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wa s ca rr ied within the yea r what cannot be done ,
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mean s by whi ch alleged criminal mo ro ns can bes t
be cheated of that which the s chool authorities of the
C ity of New York insist New York s m e ntally back
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unfolded yea rs .
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the wo rd c an t should be held taboo and you can ,
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i f y o u will i ssue commonly with the fo rce o f an
unquestionabl e sl ogan N o matter how apparently
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j e ct .
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the subj ect can t j ust figure it out how to beat them .
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The ph rase plus s omewhat of natural gift i s
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time to bri ng the crime tai nted baco n home ove r the
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sport .
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commands win o r l ose fo r a f ew minutes ,
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the countenance o f an other p arasital pug T hi s .
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should man hold up such a s the two fi st ed c r uel -
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o f c ri me ?
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T o the sneer he ha s be en actively helped by
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! or the smug chu ckle he i s appreciably i n
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esoteri c gas .
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The C ri mi n ologi s t 89
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y, and not being the dunce he i s falsely tagged ,
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averages all along the reformative line does not
meet them .
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a s between home brew an d the off s pring o f natural
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o ne must bea r equipment more convi ncing than an
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itch t o dabble and t he nerve t o fla re hi s fa rthin g.
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candle . Single seeing brings little of serviceable
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less
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n o r for himself .
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n i ngly employ ed by faking and malingeri ng c rim
i n als i s a co mmon trick which mu st be religiou sly
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y int o a certain criminal cunning resents the ,
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youth to stand life s stres s .
to kill.
that the etiology o f the eroti c neuro ses parti cul arly
ha rks ba ck t o pina fo re days ; that the s exual impres
sions o f ea rly childhood are pil ed u p i n th e cella r o f
the b rain there subconsci ou sly t o shape the sexual
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es sentially informing be cause i t i s in line with
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that kills .
life
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The habit will not he slipped o n C ounte r .
t a t i on .
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else thei r p ri son days wil l have been as rolli ng
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stones that gather no moss Furt hermore a .
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c raft : It s B ogy here Bogy there B ogy almos t
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anywher e .
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B ogy was drawn t o the key when even du p lex
telegraphy w a s a fa r-removed p ossibility Also he .
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wa s rated an electrician when the E lectri cal W orld
is sued a f o u rp age sh eet dotted with elementa ry dia
grams and analys es vulgar c raftsmen would n ow
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inerti a gave pla ce t o a power of consecutive co n ,
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o f human endeavor .
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ing close t o fou r s core and ten W o rk i s wo rshi p
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He could both send and receive fa ster than any ’
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lush ; but he couldn t control either the soles of
hi s feet o r the feet of hi s brain T herefore t was
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la r from the op erato r B ogy said I am B ogy ; have .
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y o u never heard of me ? T he operato r s aid No ’
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W ell s ays B ogy you mu st be a helluv anoper a
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beer hi s a rch enemy .
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It wa s n t in B ogy to take the final leap int o a life
o f c rime He was bigger than that a t hi s littlest
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B esides he la cked nerve t o a ccept the gambler s
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to all when a s h e put it he was in luck
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D own to the depths along with hi s dupe go the
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wife and children of th e poor fi sh T he man and .
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debo nairly over the sp aces o f the movie s creen ,
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Watch that bull j owled promotor of th e pug
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the ghoulish glint in his eyes a s he s pills verna c
ular of the gutter telling an instinctively fine bu ckra
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o f a boy what a chump he d be t o go o n playing
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the mule a t produ ctive wo rk when he pa cks a ,
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d ouble punch wi th which to land him in the midst of
easy Observe the wa r within the lad a s
be tween i nnate decency and i n a sense laudable de
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sire fo r the limelight and soft money .
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opening he s eek s then delivered lightning-like to
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and befu ddled foe borne from the ring suppo rted ,
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by hi s second s ; and then think o n high qualities
o f gamenes s and skill matched by a fine mentality
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a s an o ccupation t o the spilling o f his brother s
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thing .
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Y o u couldn t mi s s the p ractical side kick of such
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as the professo r pug ; you couldn t from chu rch ,
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portal t o the padded cell of a c onvict p ri son He s .
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the kind o f Big B rothering o f B oys that pits mere
bantam s of kids agains t each other i n a b rutal
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bout t o a finish .
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bestial business is euphemistically touted a s bo x
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ing exhibitions ; boxing mark you that leaves a
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P robably i n j ust one g o the lad had taken o n
external mark s that will s eriously handica p him fo r
all of his ea rt hly time ; very po ssibly he had suf
f e red intern al inj u ry that will ri se up along about
the medial line o f life and cu t hi m o ff and surely he
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i n the souls o f men a pea ce that p as set h under
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standing ? E very man who thinks beyond the tip
o f his nose knows that the two p ropositi ons a re pre
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o st e r o u s l
p y a ntithetic ; that histo ri an s of the futu re
will have s o decla red them ; and that A lmight ly God
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chanc e probably would have pulled st raight after
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which king pin grafters declared themselve s in
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ened crime ; it wouldn t becau se nothing less than
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a dent in c ri me ; and that s exa ctly wha t ou r friends
have maneuvred to kill i s the ability of singula rly
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chin a t i o n s .
t o have understo od .
to disc redit men who had wi shed them well and had ,
v i c t io n
i n o rder to meet thi s o r that material c o n
sideratio n .
c riminals .
fined .
clin ed .
CHA M OI S -SKIN CRI M INOL OGI S T S
o f the chamoi s .
g ib le While
. fl eet o f foot he i s at the, mercy in ,
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p ossible the mind o f the chamoi s skin c riminolo gist
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the commonwealth ?
C ertainly an agent o f th e law shoul d execute the
law even unto the end else yield his shi eld S till
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tims know that one o f the cho sen lays o f the cham
o i s s k in ch arlatan i s to imbu e c ras s criminals wit h
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n on reformative pi ffle
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t ri al and as so ciated averages a re lowest o f the
low .
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shift to get along wit h the State o r be bru shed ,
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balance M o stly he ha s a h eart al so h e has t o
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pats o n hi s back .
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When the pi ckin reduces to the likes o f the
pi ck ou r man sta nds at the pa rting of the ways
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c an squa re him self A s he senses it s ociety has
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held him up ruthlessly All ri ght then hands u p
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his automatic .
environed a nd in stitutionalized .
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the ha rm done to him W h at the c riminolo gi cal
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tyro would ask is the remedy ? ,
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bee n double c ross ed by so ciety all o f the way a n d
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t o the penal ins titution that squares with his cla ssi
fi c a t i o n a s a criminal B ar him essentially from
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( 2 ) If he i s othe r than an habitual so sen ,
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b ring i t home to the p redato ry brute that comin
a sh ooti n ’
fo r another s b elongings does not earn
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him sleepin time i n a prison wherein he ca n i n
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plenty o f cat s and a bum a rgument eve ry minute
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o ff ense criminal w ho
picked and chose while confined i n what he en t hu
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s i a st i c a ll called s ome j oint and what the cult
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chamoi s skin refe r to a s a model get along r ef o r ,
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T he message wa s mailed t o a pal who with , ,
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valuables in f ront of N o 9 Bowery New Yo rk .
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C ity .
i n olo gi st s .
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rep res sive for the pro tection of society ; and serve
the pris one r th rough a ff o rding him every sane chance
t o fo rge ahead and fac e life squ arely .
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inal Po sitively we shall not do s o with a billy
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5 M a n co rrectional institutions throughout
with men whose ch ara cters a re una ssailable w h o ,
o ff ense with out di scoura ging the off ender and who ,
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cannot be fak ed readily by criminal cunning n o r ,
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6 It will re ay the S tates
p handsomely
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T hey should be well advanced in years because ,
statu re o f an all— ur
p p o s e cri mi nolo g ist .
t i ceship during which the crimi nal c rew ply the bat
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6 E stablish Houses o f Reception fo r fi r s t -o f
pra cticable w ork body building exe rci ses the sin
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in the making
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o r subterranean machinations .
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and the cri minol ogi cal faker who shifts to line
his purs e and t o partake o f a cheap noto riety ,
c entri c cheat.
E X CE S S PROPH E T S
We a re be ri a de n by
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ex ces s ro
p p h et s .
Was hing t on S t ar .
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wont it was t o coin cutting saws such a s The ,
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shots that hit are t he shots that count .
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flank fi re .
ties.
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that c ount ; and that would still be t ru e if c rim
i n als were favo red o nly by so muc h a s the gambler s
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n ot ?
E xh ibit N o 2 o ff ered by a highly -paid co rre
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fo rming a s a re our minister s conclus i ons ’
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T here never wa s a time when theft wa s considered
”
p roper .
ephemeral prominence .
a re confronted .
eff ected
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the maj o rity o f which are c rooked in o rder t o
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coin ea sy money . Al so she will likely transmi t
,
o n fat .
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who willy —
, milly fo r a p rice have shunted publi c ,
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o f o n e who as sumes to see reformatively from the
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hill o f ! i s i on .
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( 1 ) Pro : If other men li v ing under the same ,
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B ro adly speaking the co nclusio n i s co rrect ;
,
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a twig he wa s n ot bent and inclined that way
, .
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S econdly other men ha d not lived unde r the same
,
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criminal of the clas s i ndicated i s a man who se
” “
faculties are not well balan ced ; and since Just
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l 50 Cri mi nal Types
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a s the twig is bent the tree s inclined he ha s a t ,
ti on
.
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i rrepres sibl e si nce like t h e tru e cri minal
, th ei r
,
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fa culties a re n o t well balanced ; the self seeking -
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fo r the rake o ff ; hectic emotionali sts be rate thos e
who do not see with eyes blind to the wide open -
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It wouldn t occu r to a bookkeeper that he could
remove hi s coa t and weld a better j oint than c a n a
blacksmith ; no r t o a l a wyer that he could lay bri ck
t o line with a j ou rneyman mason ; but any man o r
woman who ha s fondled a fetich o f refo rm backed ,
“ ”
E xces s P rophets ! P seudo p rotagonists ! Aye !
And spot the man no matter what hi s station o r
,
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fa sten the minds o f lads and l a ssies on spo rting
non -producers .
“ ”
abominatio n called the p rize ring ; els e histo ry wi ll
have it America went o u t o f her way to flout a gen
tle Jesus and thereby to dig her ow n thug-planne d
,
gra ve .
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lion o f that sum will go to the principal pugs ,
business home .
CRI M E A N D T HE LA Y CRI T IC
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! o r the condemned I entertai n but little blame ,
”
and f o r the good but s cant praise echoes a lady , ,
“
T he lady furt her a ffi rms that On e o f o u r chi efest
duties i s t o rehabilitate the criminal int o respect f o r
”
himself . T he platitude would ca rry more o f
weight were i t unqualified M oreover her declara
, .
,
“
ti on fights her a ssert ion since a man s respect fo r
,
’
”
himself p resupp oses j ust pride in a robust manhood .
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borne in upo n them that Work i s wo rshi p .
t iv i t i e s
which have the least t o do with refo rmati on .
“ ” “ ”
and say how many plants they should tend du r
ing the daylight o f thei r priso n day ? In many
case s thei r families require support and they the ,
question .
M on strou s libel !
W ith impa rtial and lavish hand the gentleman ,
” “
board of managers fo r pri sons : And who were
these men who sat in delibe ratio n over the destinies
of thou sands ? Were they t rained criminologist s
skilled to decide questions of cri me and puni shment ?
Had they the capacity the knowledge and the ex
, ,
”
places by the winds of favoritism ? And here y o u ,
Self exp res sion f rom c onvictio n matu res the man
-
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T rain ed c ri minologi sts t o whom o u r voluble
,
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men p eck diligently at poverty fo r the roo t o f
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c rime Were i t so The Jukes the mo st p rolific
.
, ,
ec t iv e and
j subj ective points of view it i s in a ,
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The criminal readily educe s that if a c aptain o f
”
i ndustry may at one and the same time pick the
nation s po cket and eff ect the ga rb of a lowly Jesus
’
,
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the habitual thief may tell hi s b eads an d thereby
discharge hi s mo ral obligations to s o ciety .
o s edl
p y best and bad a s its worst citizens the i n
, ,
“
Philip o f Spain was a bit over zealous fo r t he -
”
glory o f hi s L ord a nd master It was lame state
.
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less lives Kill a m an s chance to exp res s himself
.
c riminousnes s by a ccident
, T he instinctive thief
.
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p riso n guards and thei r superi ors i n rank be ,
—
dlin g i s the mo st pronounc ed and fa r reaching So .
,
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o u r man likes S teve of the institutio nal staff ;
approves o r dis approves of any pa rt o f the house
régime ; tells the t ruth about all following his re
leas e o r tells o u t -o f Whole cloth stock in trade lies
,
- -
,
- -
,
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will not be caught at it A nd then thos e will re
.
,
16 8 Cri mi nal Types
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At least said Hippoc rates Father o f M edi
,
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,
“
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cine to hi s students be sure that you do no harm
, , .
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170 Cr iminal Types
ac t obliquely .
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over i t i s tentatively insignificant if the respect
,
inno cence .
f o rma t or i e s .
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Just a s the twig i s bent the tree s inclined T he
’
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ou s b -
p roducts were n ot enough we n eeds must
y , ,
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tu ri ng get ri ch quick W allingford and pug-ugly
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drone stripes .
industry .
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thei r grand a rmy o f henchmen such as fi lle rs in
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and rac e tra ck touts to p rostitutes and p rostitu
,
”
wise and pound foolish policy o f withholding money
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The poli cy o f the State thereo f i s penny wise -
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and p ound fo olish becau se it i s much chea p e r i n
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again and even then leave him less tha nhalf baked
,
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and I don t care who instructs him after that .
and secu rity ; then sea rch out and depo rt such
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natural breeders who have sieved willy nilly into ,
-
,
the land .
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have pa s sed the seventh year by s even years and ,
ti on the me rry —
, g o -round co rrecti onal plant i s the
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sh ould be wholesome play pu rged o f the pu g ; it
should be fi xed in hi s mind a s relatively incidental t o
ba sic measu res o f refo rm and it should no t be al
,
“
A s f o r the rest Fo r forms o f gove rnment let
, ,
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fo ols contest ; tha t whi ch is best admi nistered i s best ,
“ ”
p rovided : the fo rm o f govern ment runs true t o
the fo rm demanded by the intrin si c social exactions
upon a lad .
, p ri s
oner fa rme r who was cit y-bred .
180 Cri mi nal Ty pes
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don t lose you r tempe r ; don t make promises unles s
’
’
y ou c an fulfill them to the letter ; don t const rue
a s di rected agains t you p ersonally a cts that are ,
’
aimed at bigge r game ; don t f raternize with priso n
e rs t o the gutter level ; don t heap di s cipline o f a ny
’
“ “
are down on him and are giving him the wors t
,
” ’
of
’
it ; don t w abble ; don t sh riek ; don t res o rt
’
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unduly to petty impositions fo r petty off enses ; don t
’
utte r false coi n of suggestion and example ; don t
c ommo nize disci p lin e of cha ra cter whats oeve r else it ,
P ri s o n D i scipline 18 1
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tags o f sti gma : they depres s and discourage ; don t
despis e hints dropped to y o u by lads who a re hoping
for better things and who may lead y ou to the co r
,
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B ut wa rning ! L isten to th e pe rsonal equation
,
’
that can t be cast o ff wi th su ch a s ba seball a nd ,
“ ” “ ”
a bit o f laying o n o f h ands b y the crew of -
,
cou rs e .
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T he hand s have been patting and puttering
persistently duri ng the past three decades Result ? .
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blood lust o f killing lies until the cows come home
-
, ,
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shirt and does what he sneeringly terms sleepin
, ,
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time . T his spite of the written eff usion s o f ex
,
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it f o r instance that the o ff ende rs are mo stly mo r
, ,
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ons , hopelessly o x like mentally by n ature s fling
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cannot do so .
and c ollectively f o r , l
il timed
and placed p rison pe r
-
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t o the e ff ect that society i s an ea sy ma rk fo r all
kinds o f c riminou s flim flam and bunco steeri ng
- -
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than en dure it
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Reinstate the mechanism and the spirit o f the hell
”
holes o f E gypt ? N o t at all ; but reinstate respect
for law and autho rity i n the minds o f such a s death
dealing parasites ; let them know baldly that , ,
“
Fi rst o f all have do ne with the Welfa re L eague
,
does n ot do .
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N ever again ! said a n ex prisoner a s an E nglis h
-
,
p endent derelict .
ba sic values .
libert y .
co ndi gn measure .
t ect io n o f the ma s s .
o n eart h .
M a c be t h : A ct I : S ce n e I .
M atter f
th e p receding chapters t ouches the
o
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f o r o n e rea son o u r caption reads
, Ps y chology a nd ,
”
C riminal instead o f Psychology of the Criminal
, .
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a t dealing c ro okedly from a cold deck p ra cti ces
”
a ssiduously fo r the day when he c an go S outh
“ ”
a nd mark ca rd s while they a re i n play wit h the
best of them : the which means that h e mus t take
with hi m naught o f the rough hewn churl in speech -
“ ”
high class su cker s fo r whom he casts his lines
-
.
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cri minals of all types get away with it both with ,
“ ”
o f the something ; and that th e som ething i s turned
ove r and over in grooves where men are ca rried to
cumulative lo ss then betrayed into selection o f o u t
,
liege lord .
u res in pri son and they do not take from pri son any
,
“ ”
felons about prison hell holes all but a sp rinkling
, ,
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and the best wo n t reach que rulous c rooks obsess ed
with the idea of taking falls out of law and o rder .
’
What i s more the great bulk o f America s c o rrec
,
“
but to underdone discipli ne using the wo rd disci
,
”
pline in the broad t o embrace every educative
p roces s .
—
laymen who encourage libel by ex la w b reakers are ,
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However lamb asting heartless bulls and slash
, ,
“ ”
ing pig sc rew s a re but surface incidents in the
,
.
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since bulls and s crews a re res p ectively first
and s ec ond -line social s oldiers instinctively hated ,
s crews .
p ri c e.
“ ”
exp ress that disloyalty ; sh adows fo rth mind you , ,
reformed .
“ — ”
double cros sed daily i n the predal game .
—
o f anti so cial wolves whose firs t and last thought is t o
euchre means by whi ch s ocial o rder i s established and
maintained ; for when it get s down to the ma rrow
, ,
“
further from decla rati on substantially like this : He
who do es not defend himself again st agents o f the
”
law i s a fool
, In othe r words kill then combi ne
.
, ,
to yesteryears .
—
,
derly in g motives .
a country that rec ruits its citiz enship from the fou r
co rners o f earth mu st if it i s to endure and persist
, ,
American fl ag .
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would pa ce his p aces toward the Wasse rm ann test ,
“
Solon might well have excl aimed B oast not of hap ,
”
p i n es s until you reach the last day o f you r lives !
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image of the raiding cop T o day this de railer
.
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,
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well being o f unfolding lads and lassies D own deep .
kid gloves in doing you r bit for you rself ? Why not
go after what you want with the like of the mailed
fi st an d let it go at th at ? D o n t a lot of so called
’
’ -
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highb rows do the same and go t o the head o f the
“ ”
s ocial class ? And say ! if there s essential di ff er’
y s i s
, rests th e bu rden o f j ustification ? Of course
all o f such trimming will be out of the twi sted brain
o f the crook thug who elects t o be and remain a
-
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a great big i f he kn ows that a s to the meat
o f the sentences t o mo s t o f Ameri ca s p risons the ’
,
“
menace of th e criminal i s neithe r fi sh flesh no r , ,
”
go od red herri ng ; it j ust muddle s along steered ,
“ ”
spurned s crew : but the masteri ng motive fo r thei r
crimes will usually b e singula r to the individual and ,
“ ”
the ve ry w ord psychology is looked at a skance
by many w ho keenly want to see whole .
the sub con s cfo u s impulses that sway him ; but having
taken cognizance o f thos e impulses remedial meas ,
a s follows
( a ) A s a distin ctive plant fo r a certain grade of
,
“
The p oint i s that much to o much o f s o b sister -
’
Isn t i t t rue that mos t o f t he wo rth -whi l e thi ngs
men h ave done have been done against grai n that
,
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( f ) The plan should refuse utterly the going , ,
’
that last o f the wo rld s work that should be r e
2 18 Cr i mi nal T y pes
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Some sni ff at the high calling ; albeit endeavo r
cannot be at once mo re scientific and awes ome than
raveling the mental twists and remodelling the faulty
,
’
in appreciable degree America s recidi v i stic crim
i n als who hold all reco rds fo r flippan t lawbreaking
,
.
.
up to perdition .
—
the minds o f the lads fashioned fo r thei r all a round
improvement instead of to the idea that the ex e r
,
mongers .
’ “ ”
one s blo ck o ff .
'
Such as fi st i cu fl s has been empl oyed by Uncle S am
t o aid i n rec r uiting then pu rely for the amusement
,
’
Again Uncle S am s s oldiers and s ailors a re the pick
,
a r a derie .
p ra ctical di suse .
—
m al agai n i f at all .
“ ’
I ve t ried it o u t every known way and I s ay ,
”
do n t d o t he
fi f da rn
’
rs t -
o ol t hin g .
si o n of ev i l men t h a t mu s t b e a i me d a t bu t t he i r c on
,
t r ol
. A natio n tempted to be b r utal a s Germany
was must be given to understand that the fi rst dis
,
“ ”
sho ck physically a n indi v idual bandit wh o care s
not a wisp of st raw a bout anything in the way o f
“ ”
punishment sho rt of physical pain ? S ay it r e ,
“ ”
o f the s oft pedal a s a soft thi ng through which
t o dra w out devi ous dete rmined long d ra wn out , ,
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States ; also they go right on boring i n t o th e
,
wrists .
cro oked curves in the most di rect way with the indi
v i dual weap on An archisti c agitators seek to strike
.
i ng .
’
a m an without a country who doesn t mean t o merge
wi th any but those o f hi s cla ss .
P sy chology and t he C r imi nal 2 33
R E SUM E
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L ike the time lo cked safe each cri minal h as hi s
,
“ ”
p articular combination the key to which i t i s up
t o the State to forge —
,
i f it c an .
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Whatever his combination be su rp rised if the ,
“ ”
you pin him int o position where h e cannot stall ,
’
From the mode o f o perating most o f Ame ric a s
p ri sons has been deleted all b u t the semblanc e of
rep ression a nd compulsion : and i n thei r stead ,
2 36
Su ma ry
m 2 37
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A pea ce officer p robably will be condignly dis
”
ciplin ed shall he have da red in self defens e to
, ,
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camp of
,
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looted c an sweat f o r the loot the thief plants the n ,
es t w o rk ii he wills to do so If he is a skilled
, .
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him If he i s unskilled yet o f parts such a s under
.
,
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c over Fagins cultivate he can al w ays dodge a rt ,
~
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fo r o n e governing reas on dis charged or sen , ,
”
t ence suspended i s so frequently written over the
,
age rs .
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When the exceptional fre ebooter j ust won t play
fai r and j ust will go gun hung fo r plunder i solate
,
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,
o f p ri s on .