A Plea for the Criminal
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James Leslie Allan Kayll. A Plea for the Criminal
A Plea for the Criminal
Table of Contents
Chapter I
INTRODUCTION
Chapter II
THE CRIMINAL
Chapter III
THE CAUSES OF CRIME
Chapter IV
THE MANNER AND PHILOSOPHY OF PUNISHMENT
Chapter V
ELIMINATION—DR. CHAPPLE'S PROPOSAL
Chapter VI
THE OBLIGATIONS OF SOCIETY TOWARDS THE WEAK
Chapter VII
THE NEW PENOLOGY
Chapter VIII
THE PREVENTION OF CRIME
Chapter IX
SOME AMERICAN EXPERIMENTS;—
THE PROBATION SYSTEM
THE ELMIRA SYSTEM
FOOTNOTES:
Chapter X
CONCLUSION
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James Leslie Allan Kayll
Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science
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No doubt if the acceptation of the idea of type is carried out in its complete universality, it cannot be accepted; but as I have already said in my previous writings that it is necessary to receive this idea with the same reserve which one appreciates averages in statistics.
When it is said that the average of life is 32 years, and that the month least (? most) fatal to life, is December, no one understands by this that all or almost all men should die at the age of 32 years and in the month of December; but I am not the only one to make this restriction. In order to show this I have to cite the definition which Monsieur Topinard, himself the most inveterate of my adversaries, gives in his remarkable work "The Type," says Gratiolet, "is a synthetic expression." "The Type," says Goethe, is "the abstract and general image" which we deduce from the observation of the common parts and from the differences. "The type of a species," adds Isidorus St. Helaire, "never appears before our eyes but is perceived only by the mind." "Human types," writes Broca, "have no real existence, they are only abstract conceptions, ideals, which come from the comparison of ethnic varieties, and are composed of an ENSEMBLE of characters common to a certain degree among themselves." I agree with these different points of view. The type is indeed an ENSEMBLE of traits, but in relation to a group which it characterises, it is also the ENSEMBLE of its most prominent traits, and those repeating themselves, whence comes a series of consequences which the anthropologist should never lose sight of either in his laboratory or in the midst of the populations of Central Africa." Manouvrier opposes Lombroso's theory and denies the existence of the type. He argues that if it exist at all it must be universal, whereas the peculiarities noted by Lombroso are present in honest as well as in criminal persons, the latter having, however, the greater proportion.
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