_THE CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE SERIES._ EDITED BY HAVELOCK ELLIS. THE CRIMINAL. _By the same Author._ THE NEW SPIRIT. LONDON: G. BELL & SONS. [Illustration: _Frontispiece._] THE CRIMINAL. BY HAVELOCK ELLIS. _ILLUSTRATED._ SCRIBNER & WELFORD, 743 & 745 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 1890. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER II. THE STUDY OF THE CRIMINAL 26 CHAPTER III. CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY (PHYSICAL)-- § 1. CRANIAL AND CEREBRAL CHARACTERISTICS 49 § 2. THE FACE 63 § 3. ANOMALIES OF THE HAIR 72 § 4. CRIMINAL PHYSIOGNOMY 78 § 5. THE BODY AND VISCERA 88 § 6. HEREDITY 90 § 7. TATTOOING 102 § 8. MOTOR ACTIVITY 108 § 9. PHYSICAL SENSIBILITY 112 CHAPTER IV. CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY (PSYCHICAL)-- § 1. MORAL INSENSIBILITY 124 § 2. INTELLIGENCE 133 § 3. VANITY 139 § 4. EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY 142 § 5. SENTIMENT 152 § 6. RELIGION 156 § 7. THIEVES’ SLANG 161 § 8. PRISON INSCRIPTIONS 169 § 9. CRIMINAL LITERATURE AND ART 176 § 10. CRIMINAL PHILOSOPHY 193 CHAPTER V. THE RESULTS OF CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY 202 CHAPTER VI. THE TREATMENT OF THE CRIMINAL 233 CHAPTER VII. CONCLUSIONS 283 APPENDIX-- A. EXPLANATION OF PLATES 303 B. THE CONGRESS OF CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY AT PARIS 307 C. THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PENAL LAW 316 D. SOME CASES OF CRIMINALITY 318 E. ELMIRA 329 INDEX 335 PREFACE. This little book is an attempt to present to the English reader a critical summary of the results of the science now commonly called criminal anthropology. In other words, it deals briefly with the problems connected with the criminal as he is in himself and as he becomes in contact with society; it also tries to indicate some of the practical social bearings of such studies.