PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIME.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 192, 8 May 1908, Page 4

PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIME.

■i^ ; '!;We jaro rall.:r.Epte[jt;aJ.'.;criminals,,'', was : -'tjibi : /st^tling"'''sTaiement' f made'; ; by..., Dr. '©b'ert "Wilson to a deeply interested audiy at §he .Society, last month.; I the .heredity of . some: of|these,,;pobr r . : peQpl,e.;(prispners)].- or if; , wejhad pad tlie' environment,- we .should; have; 'done _same as. they."....',lnsanity'was the first .caiise; of 1 crime, 1 "'"he > '.proceeded,' and a ; ipund-iin: mental ■ instability.-, Ci-iininalp feoffi forme'd'a largo, and; increa'siiig class^for,. w-p' were. .becoming more, third class of; criminals he '-'..lining the! term in a ho'tanicaT 1 sen|e—the pqrson might come of a respectablo'ilSiiSy and'go 1 straight for years, .and then succumb. A. fourth' class was.duo--i» : 'biliH^ti]ih®®i'''tS v wh!ch-' connection, ho mentioned; ; Mr.JCharles; Williams, a reformed convict, who was present. Mr.' Williaips gave an account of' the visits whi.ch Colbnel Pi^eß^^j^jdj-him'in.prlsoiiJ.'.'and, • p,f' Iho bffl|^te|e^y^«mj^ivedi' fifth class, ?Bf' degeiipratipn'Jipbr- - , : sons., whps jina,chihbt7^.V'to { livp in: "and ; < 'do i.well,SU^t a i,wjlip Jji-'okje.. jdown under .the ] j'strSiii, ofe-city'" life, wrong. Dr. ;, Wilson ;.|ad"' present, whose hfe onej a poor lad wltp did .who. had t to ,tho the task. ; sisnt to prison', '.wliere- treatment - than ' at the! was a man who for 40' years 110 work,.but. now,''under' tlie; of tho Salvation Army, deligftted|-in mm-; hours' scrubbing. In concltteion, llpl WjJsoiij who is producing a book the .urgently for more-sympathy in' dealing with criitijnals..ifSbme'hpiwould flog*severely, and .others 1 wlifl-'Were-.'siipping'- down, .the inhelped up,4o...the nor- ' mal stat^at'the tMw.'/., i r.jr'. j 1 b ' •' '