Crime, Its Cause And Treatment: On The Question of Human Conduct

“This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct.”

Among lawyers, none are unilaterally venerated like Clarence Darrow. The Ohio attorney rose to international fame as the defense attorney in two Trials of the Century; both the Leopold and Loeb case and the Scopes Monkey Trial. In this quality reissue of Crime: Its Cause and Treatment, Darrow analyzes and interprets the essence and origins of both crime and the mind of the criminal, both male and female.. He discusses events in the background of criminals that lead them to crime, as well as the natural phenomena and psychological faults that can cause antisocial behavior. In this seminal work of criminology, Darrow accesses crime in a similar manner in which doctors treat disease by identifying its symptoms and causes.

PREFACE

1. WHAT IS CRIME? 2. PURPOSE OF PUNISHMENT 3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR CRIME 4. ENVIRONMENT 5. ADJUSTING HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT 6. PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT 7. THE CRIMINAL 8. THE FEMALE CRIMINAL 9. JUVENILE CRIMINALS 10. HOMICIDE 11. SEX CRIMES 12. ROBBERY AND BURGLARY 13. MAN AS A PREDATORY ANIMAL 14. CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY 15. ATTITUDE OF THE CRIMINAL 16. THE LAW AND THE CRIMINAL 17. REPEALING LAWS 18. IS CRIME INCREASING? 19. MEDICAL EXPERTS 20. PUNISHMENT 21. THE EFFECT OF PUNISHMENT ON OTHERS 22. EVOLUTION OF PUNISHMENT 23. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 24. STIGMATA OF THE CRIMINAL 25. THE GOOD IN CRIMINALS 26. THE DEFECTIVE AND INSANE 27. SOCIAL CONTROL 28. INDUSTRIALISM AND CRIME 29. WAR AND CRIME 30. CIVILIZATION AND CRIME 31. THE CONVICT 32. ISOLATION AND STERILIZATION 33. CRIME, DISEASE AND ACCIDENT 34. LUCK AND CHANCE 35. PARDONS AND PAROLES 36. REMEDIES