For society habitually to bare its breast to the deadly strokes of derailed underdogs, just because they are derailed underdogs, is for society to spade at its own grave.

Statistics that involve general conclusions are avoided herein. They are, because under present opportunity for specific research, they cannot be made either substantially reliable or inclusive. At the best they may mislead. At the worst they will lie.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[I]Typal Earmarks[11]
[II]The Criminal Mind[32]
[III]The Moral Criminal[51]
[IV]The Psychiatrist[66]
[V]The Criminologist[88]
[VI]Links in the Chain of Crime[104]
[VII]Chamois-Skin Criminologists[121]
[VIII]“Excess Prophets”[141]
[IX]Crime and the Lay Critic[154]
[X]Prison Discipline[169]
[XI]Psychology and the Criminal[192]
[XII]Summary[236]


CRIMINAL TYPES