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ARE CRIMINALS CURABLEZ WRONGDOING AS A MEDICAL PROBLEM.
SEGREGATING THE UNFIT.
· (BY WOODA nurONINSON, KAŊ Moha A LEADING AMERICAN · XXPHUT.)
The recent meeting in London of the great International Prison Congress. with its cheering reports of steadily emptying prisons almost all over the world, encourages us to raise a further question. How far are we now prepared to treat crime as a medical problem 1 In other words is crime preventable ↑ | Is the criminal curable1
My own first vivid realisation of crime as a medical problem dates from a visit to the State Homo for Teeble- Minded Children "ab Vinetaud, New Jersey.
On tracing the pedigree of inmates it was found that nearly, one-third of the 700 children were as closely related as second cousins.
In tracing a new family of le linquents and paupers it was found that in the same towns and regions was another large family who had the same) name but were all prosperous and law- abiding citizens.
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MAKING OF CRIMINALS.
On looking up the pedigree of these familie "it was discovered that both were descended from one common na- cestor about seven generations' back. A young man of good family ran a little wild, and for some time lived with an attractive but feeble minded and de linquent girl, by whom he had a child. Then he went away to the war of 1776, and on his return reformed and married a respectable girl of excellent family
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From his child by the feeble-minded giri aprang a family reaching some 150 members in seven generations, nearly all of whom were feeble-minded, petty thierce, drunkards, prostitutes, papers.
From his marrings with the girl of good family sprang a second group of about 10 in the same time, all of whom, with the exception of "a few bard law-abiding citizens of good standing in drinkers, were respectable, prosperous,
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Wenk wit, cazal by wild blood-and we see the sins of the fathers visited? upon the children unto the fifth und sixth generations. Wild blood, steadied by sound stock-and the lines have fallen unto us in pleasant places." Ozo family born to honour, the other to dis
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Then came the revelations connected | with the famous Jukes family, a tribei uf Ishwari.
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POISONED BLOOD.
Soon after the death of Dr. Dugdale, who traced the family tree of over 700 delinquents and prostitutes, the records were lost and the family could not be followed further. But after nearly 30 years the records were discovered in a cellar in the reformatory, the history' of the tribe was again taken up and followed down to date, and three notorious murderers were found to have bren of the Jukes blood, with a swarm of minor offenders! The records were lost, the pedigree forgotten, but the poison of the vagabond, criminal blood, lived on.
A little later, in the great State of Indiana, careful field studies revealed that nearly 35 per cent of the crimes committed in a ten-year period by na- Live offenders were the work of five de fective and criminal families! Sterilisa- tion or segregation of five vagabond, worthless couples thirty years before would have cut down the crime roll by 35 per cent.
Feeble-mindedness probably accounts for 30 per cent. of crimes and 90 per cent. of pauperism and prostitution. But planned crimes of violence requires strength, brains, and courage. Fifteen years ago the great Kraepelin discover ed and described a new form of insanity, dementia precor. Such a revolutionary discovery was it that within ten years "45 per cent, of the ingane in our asylums. were classed as dementia precos. This was probably excessive. Now & similar revolution is taking place in our views of crime, and from 30 to 75 per cent. of our criminals are classed as preens, which is also probably excessivo,
85-75 PER CENT. UNBALANCED. But careful and competent psychia trists, attached to courts, like Jacoby, of Detroit, now regard from 10 to 15 per cent. as insane, from 30 to 40 per cent, as fechleminded, and, from 30 to 40 per cent. more as of psychopathic constitution," or in plain English, "cranks" and "misfits," making from 65 to 75 per cent. mentally defective or unbalanced.
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or reparative institutioné, at an orpenso of about £3,000 -д “YCẾT, The other 40 criminal judges of Chicaga succeed in
The latter remedy has now been, convicting and committing only about carried out in some 3,000 cases in the 1,000 criminals a year at an expense of United States rithout a single had $2,000,000. Which is a fair sample of result, and 18 of 49 States have laws the comparative efficiency and economy authorising it, under compelent boards of treating crime as a disease..
The picture of dementia precar is the of judges, medical experts, heads of picture of a typical prison population. prisons and commissioners of charities. It begins suddenly at from 12 to 15 years of age, rapidly rises and increases
up to 25 to 30 years, which is the apex of our criminal prison, population; and it rapidly declines into either decrepi tude or death after 30.
BRITAIN'S COLD INFLUX.
MONETARY CONDITIONS EASED.
Ono of the cost interesting incidents, Two-thirds of the sterilisations so far says the Glagow-erald, in the world have been at the Pequent of the priser of money recently has been the large been treated, or at the desire of his influx of sold to the Bank of England, family.
the total quantity acquired on balance by
on the advice of his fellows who have
Bol feeble-mindedness and dementin
It does not follow, of course, that all of this bullion found" gold to the". Bank of England, but even when full- allowance is made for, the credits drawn against the additional bullion goes far to case honetary conditions in this coun
ry. Large as the demands of the money inarket are, 5,000,000 is not a negligible sum, especially when it is remembered that each $1,000,000 of gobi in sufficient basking for several millions of credit.
The comparatively low interest rates
The secret of the crime problem lies precoz can be detected by skilled. pss the Bank since the restoration of the gold that have obtained for short loans since
chologists in the public schools before standard bring £5,870,00. The metal in the mind of the criminal. When grave mental defect producing anti-nor, at the outside twelve years of social conduct is discovered, the rational 28 And at this and they can be readily the form of bars and sovereigns has come dealt with either by special education from various sources, principally Holland remedy is segregation, with the sexes or by segregation in happy farm colonies and South Africa, while Russia has also separated, or sterilisation,
and industrial villages, planned for
been a substantial contributor. children who never grow up,
(Continued ar-foot of next Ostumn.)
the beginning of July may be traced largely to the inbux that has taken place to say nothing of the fact that the greater the gold reserve the greater the prospect of maintaining our currency on a favourable level,