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Title: Education, personality & crime ; a practical treatise built up on scientific details, dealing with difficult social problems
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wilson, Albert, 1854-1928
Subjects: Crime Personality Education and crime Social problems Crime Personality
Publisher: London, Greening & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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werful class Form of of Fundamental criminals. Action and reaction are tiotT^^** 6qual and opposite is an old law in physics, and it has some truth in Sociology. Consequently, at the opposite pole of fundamental criminality we have Reactive criminals; those to whom crime is almost, if not quite, a necessity. We are trying to cast out the latter, which is an impossi-bility as long as fundamental crime persists. Democratic Socialism is no assistance, as it levels down,confiscates, and encourages lawless idleness, in addition toignoring all religious truths and moral ideals. Success can only follow strict Biblical Unes, and that wiUnever be attained. We must therefore be content to workon the fringe of crime, saving and helping a few. If we choose to be practical, we must fall back on the sport-ing British instinct and look on passively, watching classtread on mass, and ocasionally a smart contre-coup from massto class. But it is very sad that things should so remain.; God helpthe poor !
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The Author, Brigadier Playle and their friends who have been sentenced to 96 years in prison. Facing page 207. CHAPTER XXIEX-CRIMINALS I HAVE KNOWN (A) The haunted murderer—(B) Birdie : the little born criminal—(C) JoeSmith : the king of burglars : a social accident and a fine personality.His conversion in his own words—The murderers brain. I WAS led into the investigation of the criminal mind bythe remarkable changes of personality shown by Mary Barnes,and reported in the Journal of Mental Science, October, 1904,and briefly alluded to in Chapter XVII. I anticipated find-ing some cases amongst criminals, but was disappointed, afterexamining more than 200. I visited the Salvation Army Bureau in Whitechapel, andwas most courteously received by Commissioner Sturgess,who gave me every facility. I was fascinated by the work,and saw the criminal to the greatest advantage. The criminalis so cunning and so deceptive that those who naturally haveto do with him, from policeman to judge, c

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