Author: August DrahmsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330016732
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Excerpt from The Criminal His Personnel and Environment: A Scientific Study These pages present in modest pretension the summary of several years' study and practical contact with a subject hitherto lightly esteemed, and less understood (save by the few), and yet of more than passing importance. I have sought to examine the same in its twofold phases: in its purely personal aspect, and as a social phenomenon. Since the proper study of mankind is man, it follows that equal importance attaches to that morbid or variational form in respect of which he differs morally and sociologically from his fellows. This circumscribes the scope and limit of practical criminology. Physical and moral soundness excites no criticism and creates little interest, it being the normal condition of man. Departure therefrom arouses attention in proportion to its seriousness, and lays open a wide field of speculative inquiry in the direction of cause and cure, as exploited by theorist and experimentalist. This constitutes the ground of criminological science, if such it may be termed. Crime is largely a social disease. Its personnel is the bacilli that infect the collective organism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.