Pacifism, a dream, 218-219.
Panics, strikes following on, 102.
Pardons, granting of, to criminals, 263-272.
Parole, release of prisoners on, 265-272.
Parole boards, 22;
responsibilities of, 266-272;
need of, for honesty, intelligence, and thorough equipment for work,
278-279.
Parole laws, 218-219.
Pick-pocket, development of the, 60-62.
Pliny, letter of, quoted, 225-228.
Poverty, relation between crime and, 101-102, 172, 176-177;
of men charged with crime, 120.
Prisoners, situation of, 120-123;
proposed remedial measures affecting, 273-282.
Prisons, reformation not accomplished in, 20-21.
gradual improvement in, 163-164.
Probation, system of, 271-272.
Prohibition laws, 138;
effect of, on crime, 197-198;
Property, crimes against, 97-99;
normal results of civilization, 100;
discussion and analysis of, 101-108.
Pugnacity, instinct of, in man, 47, 48.
Punishment, purpose of, 12 ff.;
hatred and vengeance as moving purposes of, 12-19;
reformation viewed as aim of, 19-21;
as a deterrent from crime, 21-24;
impossibility of justifying, by any reasoning, 25-27;
determining correct basis of fixing, 150-157;
effects of too drastic, 156-157;
results of, to others than the subject, 158-160;
evolution of, 161-165;
capital, 166-171;
viewed as cruelty, not as a remedial measure, 275.
Rape, crime of, 88-89, 91.
Reason, slight effect of, on actions of men, 44-55.
Reformation, viewed as purpose of punishment 19-21;
impossibility of moral, of man, 276-277.
Religion, emotional life supplied by 54-55;
in early times, subjects for criminal code furnished by, 161-163;
criminal code created with growth of, 223-224.
Repulsion, instinct of, in man, 47.
"Revelations of St. Peter," quotation from, 14-17.
Revenge. _See_ Vengeance.
Revenue laws, common violation of, 132.
Revolutionists, position of, 114.
Robbery, crime of, 92-93.
Sabbath observance, disregard of laws concerning, 132.
Self-protection, a justification of imprisonment, 25.
Sentences of prisoners, basis of fixing, 156-157;
indeterminate, 268-271, 278.
Sentimentalism, defense of, 168-169.
Sex instinct in man, 45, 48-49;
jealousy and revenge caused by, 84-85;
crimes resulting from, 88-91.
Shoplifting, kleptomania and, 191-192.
Social control, theory of, 136;
discussion of, 193-202.
Spanish Inquisition, ravages of the, 224.
Sterilization of the defective, 233-249.
Stigmata of the criminal, 172-177.
Strikes, crimes following on, 102.
Suggestion, power of, on human mind, 24, 65.
Sumner, W.G., "Folkways" by, 131.
Taboos, adoption of, by primitive man, 7-8.
Tests, physical, of prisoners, 176-177;
intelligence, for grading mentality of the backward, 185-186.
Trajan, correspondence between Pliny and, 225-228.
Vengeance, origin in, of idea of punishment, 12-19;
punishment inflicted solely for, not as remedial measure, 275.
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