STUDY OF CRIMINALS.
? LQtyQO-N, Nov.. 23.— The most important: criminologicaP work Wer 1 con- . lucted X has been summarised . and pub'ished'; % the Prisons Committee under ; the superintendence'- of • Mv^ Karl ' Pear.-. t : ,son. ■" i ; •■ - V. >'■.'.; • •• • ' It statas: ; thai^ 3000 ■■' V conviets '•'.' ' have been collected, measured, and watched, and the results proVe that;- a 'c'rimMial typo do.is nob exist. *•• ■■'■' 'Criminals do not . . pdsse^s abnormal physical! or mental ; ch.aratte.r,i'stics;~ They : >elongVlargely a. defective^ cja-sa, bpUx johysi'OaUy and- mentally-, -bufc" it adds, •; "Orimirialiby is not a morbid state akin to a physicAl disease/* -■■-' r, The ;r. e portii6ne tKe lessj 'admits that 1 hrimiiiility is subject' to heredity. 1
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15089, 11 December 1919, Page 2
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106STUDY OF CRIMINALS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15089, 11 December 1919, Page 2
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