Crime - Its Cause and Treatment

Crime - Its Cause and Treatment

Clarence Darrow, American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union (1857-1938)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Preface

- 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 A 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