Excerpts from the Book 'The Indeterminate Sentence What Shall Be Done With The Criminal Class':

... basis, with due regard to the protection of society and to the interests of the criminal. It is purely an economic and educational ...
... drink, and unsanitary conditions, as leading to crime. We have still to take care of the exposed children, of those with parentage and surroundings inclining ...
... in secure confinement. And still this is not the worst. We are all living in abject terror of these licensed robbers. We fear robbery ...
... by the industry of crime alone. But it is not isolated, and it has widespread relations. There is a large portion of our population not technically ...
... for injury. Only a few persons now hold to that. They say now that if it does little good to the offender, it is deterrent as to others. Now, is ...
... it was based upon the notion that, if any criminal showed sufficient evidence of a wish to lead a different life, he should be conditionally ...
... patent to the most superficial observation that our present method does not protect society, and does not lessen the number of the criminal ...
... upon society and the second is the placing of these offenders in a position where they can be kept long enough for scientific treatment ...
... so, for it fits in perfectly well with their scheme of life. This is to them a sort of business career, interrupted now and then only by ...
... of the legal profession which gets its living out of the criminal class, and it is sure to meet the objection of the sentimentalists who ...
... the house in which he is confined. It is for him to choose whether he will become a decent man and go back into society, or whether he will ...
... the most interesting of our modern problems. To take a decadent human being, a wreck physically and morally, and try to make a man of him, ...
... In the limits of this paper I have been obliged to confine myself to remarks upon the indeterminate sentence itself, without going into the ...
... it must be borne in mind that the best effects cannot be obtained there, owing to the lack of the indeterminate sentence. In this institution the ...
... a law-abiding, productive member of society. Here, indeed, is a problem worthy of the application of all our knowledge of mind and of ...
... and reform of the criminal class, when the public determines upon it, will call into the service a class of men fitted for the great work. We ...
... wrong. We propose to submit him to influences that will change that habit. We also know that this is not accomplished by suppressing that habit, ...
... men necessarily learn evil from each other. This is, of course, an evil. It is here, however, partially overcome by the fact that the inmates are ...
... prospect for the reformation of the criminal offender. Why not try it? Why not put the whole system of criminal jurisprudence and procedure ...
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