The Criminal Imbecile: An Analysis of Three Remarkable Murder Cases

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Jean Gianini. (Upper picture taken in jail. Printed by permission of Zintsmaster and Jones, Herkimer, N. Y., Photographers.)
THE CRIMINAL IMBECILE
AN ANALYSIS OF THREE REMARKABLE MURDER CASES
BY HENRY HERBERT GODDARD DIRECTOR OF DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH VINELAND TRAINING SCHOOL
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1915 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1915, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1915.
Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

This book is offered to the public in the belief that the three cases herein described are typical of a large proportion of criminal cases and that the analysis and discussion attempted will help to make clear important points which are often misunderstood, points relative to the criminal and to the imbecile.
A clear conception of the nature of the imbecile and of his relation to crime will inevitably result in a most desirable change in our criminal procedure.