ECONOMIC CRIMES A. Vagrancy and Mendicity 546 B. Theft and Analogous Crimes 563 a. Thefts Committed from Poverty 564 b. Theft Committed from Cupidity 571 c. Crimes Committed by Professional Criminals 579 C. Robbery and Analogous Crimes 589 D. Fraudulent Bankruptcy, Adulteration of Food, and Analogous Crimes 599 CHAPTER III SEXUAL CRIMES A. Adultery 609 B. Rape and Indecent Assaults upon Adults 612 C. Rape and Indecent Assaults upon Children 621 CHAPTER IV CRIMES FROM VENGEANCE AND OTHER MOTIVES A. Crimes Committed from Vengeance 625 B. Infanticide 644 CHAPTER V POLITICAL CRIMES 648 CHAPTER VI PATHOLOGICAL CRIMES 656 CHAPTER VII CONCLUSIONS 667 BIBLIOGRAPHY 673 INDEX 701 GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN CRIMINAL SCIENCE SERIES. At the National Conference of Criminal Law and Criminology, held in Chicago, at Northwestern University, in June, 1909, the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology was organized; and, as a part of its work, the following resolution was passed: “Whereas, it is exceedingly desirable that important treatises on criminology in foreign languages be made readily accessible in the English language, Resolved, that the president appoint a committee of five with power to select such treatises as in their judgment should be translated, and to arrange for their publication.” The Committee appointed under this Resolution has made careful investigation of the literature of the subject, and has consulted by frequent correspondence. It has selected several works from among the mass of material. It has arranged with publisher, with authors, and with translators, for the immediate undertaking and rapid progress of the task. It realizes the necessity of educating the professions and the public by the wide diffusion of information on this subject. It desires here to explain the considerations which have moved it in seeking to select the treatises best adapted to the purpose. For the community at large, it is important to recognize that criminal science is a larger thing than criminal law. The legal profession in particular has a duty to familiarize itself with the principles of that science, as the sole means for intelligent and systematic improvement of the criminal law.