Juvenile Crime and Reformation: Including Stigmata of Degeneration; Being a Hearing on the Bill (H. R. 16733) to Establish a Laboratory for the Study of the Criminal, Pauper, and Defective Classes

Arthur MacDonald

Jan 1908 · U.S. Government Printing Office

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Of indorsements [sic] of work incorporated in bill -- Practical results -- Come conclusions of criminology -- Remedy -- Morality chief element in education -- Inmates of institutions should be studied thoroughly -- The same training for normal and abnormal -- Palliative measures not sufficient -- About three-fourths are reformed -- Hopeless cases very few -- Actual conditions of weakling classes -- Study of causes first, then remedy -- the study of criminals should begin with the young -- The child inclined toward evil -- Younger criminals in court. Study of juvenile criminals: some physical defects ; Decay of family life and increase of child crime ; Young criminals and heredity ; Young murders by nature ; Little girl assassins ; Cases of girl incendiaries ; Reform of juvenile criminals ; Reform of wayward youth ; Unruly, vagabond, and criminal children ; A reformatory as a laboratory ; Statistics of child suicide ; Post-mortems of suicides ; Statistics of juvenile crime ; Reformatory statistics in the United States ; Statistics of young criminals in the United States ; Statistics of prisoners in the United States ; Psychophysical and anthropometrical instruments of precision ; A study of Emile Zola as illustrating method ; More pleasure than pain the world ; A sadistic murder ; Stigmata of degeneration ; anarchism ; Questionnaire ; Recent literature on child crime, suicide, and on stigmata of degeneration ; Resolution adopted by the Sixth International Congress of Criminal Anthropology or Europe as to the treatment of juvenile crime -- Pathosocial, educational, and psychophysical works by author -- Index.