The young malefactor : a study in juvenile delinquency, its causes and treatment / by Thomas Travis ; with an introduction by Ben B. Lindsey.

  • Travis, Thomas.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The young malefactor : a study in juvenile delinquency, its causes and treatment / by Thomas Travis ; with an introduction by Ben B. Lindsey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    prisoners as among the ordinary population. But it should be noted that there was no proof adduced that these were by nature criminal and absolutely no proof that these stigmata occurred in such a way as to discover type of crime with even an approximate accuracy. Such results, differing radically as they do from those of the Italian School, should be explicable before they are received, for the Italian anthropologists are among the best, if not quite the best, in the world. It will be remembered that Lombroso worked almost entirely with adults of one race, the Italian. The writer's work, especially in New Jersey institutions, has enabled him to work with many Italian, offenders, as well as with almost every other common race of men. He finds this true: Among the Italian criminals adults are found who are accurately described by Lombroso, z'.e., they have asymmetrical heads, thick hair, prominent frontal eminences, high cheek bones, big facial angle, large orbital capacity, abnormal facial hair, etc., and their history reveals something very like born crimi-