CHAPTER XV.
| THE ROD AS A REFORMATIVE AGENT IN THE EDUCATION OF YOUTHFUL LAWBREAKERS A recent ruling on corporal punishment—Favored by best prison reformers—Horace Mann—School Principals and teachers—Supt. Brockway—What they do in England and Germany—Rights of parents—Lawless homes—Crime more demoralizing than pain—An experienced probation officer—What others say. | Page [133] |
CHAPTER XVI
| CRIME AMONG WOMEN (1) The Social Evil. (2) Felonies. (3) The Shoplifter. Causes of crime among women—Reasons for moral leprosy—The Cadet system—How carried on—Examples—The celestials of Chinatown—Women of the Tombs—Mother Mandelbaum—Queen Bertha—A belle from old Kentucky—Others—The modern shoplifter—Examples. | Page [139] |
CHAPTER XVII.
| THE STEAL OR STARVE UNFORTUNATES A great omission—Poverty and social conditions the cause of crime—The unemployed—Hungry children—Poverty homes and crime—What ex-convicts say—Hungry men commit crime to be sent to prison—Want food. | Page [151] |
CHAPTER XVIII.
| HOW YOUNG MEN BREAK INTO PRISON Startling facts—Save young men—The way of the transgressor—How young men go down—Example—Percentage of young men—Opinion of Supt. Brockway—Generators of crime—Fast living—Examples—Bad associates—Need of agencies. | Page [157] |
CHAPTER XIX
| OUR POLICE GUARDIANS Prevention better than cure—An experienced Superintendent—Politics the curse of the Department—The Lexow investigations—The single-headed Commissioner—Present standing of the Police—The work of a policeman—The cost of the police for 1909—General Bingham. | Page [164] |