Crime
Its Cause and Treatment
Published on 1. November 2012
200 pages
978-1-77652-587-4 (ISBN)
Description
True-crime fans and readers interested in the history of American jurisprudence should definitely add Crime: Its Cause and Treatment to their must-read list. Penned by famed lawyer Clarence Darrow, this penetrating look at the origins of criminal behavior draws on Darrow's own experiences defending such infamous characters as the teenage thrill-killers Leopold and Loeb.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- I - What is Crime?
- II - Purpose of Punishment
- III - Responsibility for Crime
- IV - Environment
- V - Adjusting Heredity and Environment
- VI - Psychology of Criminal Conduct
- VII - The Criminal
- VIII - The Female Criminal
- IX - Juvenile Criminals
- X - Homicide
- XI - Sex Crimes
- XII - Robbery and Burglary
- XIII - Man as a Predatory Animal
- XIV - Crimes Against Property
- XV - Attitude of the Criminal
- XVI - The Law and the Criminal
- XVII - Repealing Laws
- XVIII - Is Crime Increasing?
- XIX - Medical Experts
- XX - Punishment
- XXI - The Effect of Punishment on Others
- XXII - Evolution of Punishment
- XXIII - Capital Punishment
- XXIV - Stigmata of the Criminal
- XXV - The Good in Criminals
- XXVI - The Defective and Insane
- XXVII - Social Control
- XXVIII - Industrialism and Crime
- XXIX - War and Crime
- XXX - Civilization and Crime
- XXXI - The Convict
- XXXII - Isolation and Sterilization
- XXXIII - Crime, Disease and Accident
- XXXIV - Luck and Chance
- XXXV - Pardons and Paroles
- XXXVI - Remedies
