Crime : its cause and treatment / Clarence Darrow ; foreword by Simon Baatz.

Author: Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.

Imprint:New York : Kaplan, c2009.

Descriptionxvii, 248p. ; 21 cm.

Note:Originally published: New York : Thomas Y. Crowell, c1922. With new foreword.

Note:Includes index.

Note:What is crime? -- Purpose of punishment -- Responsibility for crime -- Environment -- Adjusting heredity and environment -- Psychology of criminal conduct -- The criminal -- The female criminal -- Juvenile criminals -- Homicide -- Sex crimes -- Robbery and burglary -- Man as predatory animal -- Crimes against property -- Attitude of the criminal -- The law and the criminal -- Repealing laws -- Is crime increasing? -- Medical experts -- Punishment -- The effect of punishment on others -- Evolution of punishment -- Capital punishment -- Stigmata of the criminal -- The good in criminals -- The defective and insane -- Social control -- Industrialism and crime -- War and crime -- Civilization and crime -- The convict -- Isolation and sterilization -- Crime, disease and accident -- Luck and chance -- Pardons and paroles -- Remedies.

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