A History of Penal Methods: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from A History of Penal Methods: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

He started some few years back as a helpless baby, with a little bright, wondering face looking out on life. What has been impressed into it since then? It was a blank page, with only the water-mark of heredity, and a certain grade of quality and texture upon it. What have we written there? What has the whole community been doing to make these lines, now so deeply graven, or whence came they How is this stain on him, and there fore on all of us, to be cleared away? What must be done to help with a strong hand that will be criminology.

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