The position of woman--The posturing of men--Love and crime--Two cases of theft from sexual attraction--The female thief--Case--Blackmailing--Jealousy and crime--Two murder cases--Case of assault--Fewer women than men are criminals--Their greater difficulty in recovery--Young girls and sexual offences--The perils of girlhood--Wages and conduct--Exotic standards of dress--Ignorance and wrongdoing--The domestic servant--Her difficulties-- Concealment of pregnancy cases--The culprit and the father--Morals--The fallen woman--Bigamy 140-160 CHAPTER VII PUNISHMENT The universal cure-all--The public and the advertising healer--The essence of all quackery--The quackery of punishment--Rational treatment--Justice not bad temper-- Retribution--Our fathers and ourselves--Their methods not necessarily suitable to our time--Capital punishment--The incurable and the incorrigible--Objections to capital punishment apply in degree to all punishment--The "cat"-- The executioner and the surgeon--Whipping and its effect--The flogged offender--The act and the intention-- Pain and vitality--Unequal effects of punishment--Fines and their burden--Who is punished most?--Punishment and expiation--Punishment and deterrence--Social opinion the real deterrent--Vicious social circles--Respect for the law--Prevention of crime 161-185 PART III THE TREATMENT OF THE CRIMINAL CHAPTER I THE MACHINERY OF THE LAW The police and their duties--Divided control--Need for knowledge of local peculiarities--The fear of "corruption"--The police cell--Cleanliness and discomfort--Insufficient provision of diet, etc.--The casualty surgeon--The police court--The untrained magistrate--The assessor--Pleas of "guilty"--Case--Apathy of the public--Agents for the Poor--The prison van--The sheriff court--The procurator-fiscal--Procedure in the higher courts--The Scottish jury 189-209 CHAPTER II THE PRISON SYSTEM Centralisation--The constitution of the Prison Commission--Parliamentary control--The Commissioners--The rules--The visiting committee--The governor and the matron--The chaplain--The medical officer--The staff 210-219 CHAPTER III THE PRISON AND ITS ROUTINE Reception of the prisoner--Cleanliness and order--The plan of the prison--The cells--Their furniture--The diet--The clothing--Work--The Workshops--Separate confinement and association--Gratuities--Prison offences--Complaints-- Punishment cells--Visits of the chaplain--Visits of representatives of the Churches--The gulf between visitor and visited--The Chapel--The Salvation Army--Rest-- Recreation--The prison Library--Lectures--The airing-yard--Physical drill 220-242 CHAPTER IV VARIATIONS IN ROUTINE