It has been urged here, where the people have been arguing warmly over their psychopathic laboratory, that by decreasing the number of convictions and punishments, the number of crimes would be increased. The old idea, in other words, the fear of the law prevents crime. Perhaps it does, with normal people; but with the abnormal it doesn't, because their brain's don't work right. In old England they used to hang people for stealing cents' worth of muslin, and the percentage of crime was just as high then as it is now. To punish the normal criminal and to recognize and treat the abnormal as such is the aim of the new criminology.

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For instance, the case of a twenty-year-old boy came up here the other day. He was charged with carrying a gun. He was holding a job with a wood-sized company, and there was nothing to show that he was not an ordinary cheap laborer. He attracted the attention of the laboratory, however, and they examined him. He had the mind of a nine-year-old child. His family was called and questioned, and they admitted that he was feeble-minded, but protested that he was ill usually lovable and inoffensive. He brought his wages home carefully, and had been known to walk four miles with $50 in his pocket rather than pay a nickel car fare. He had taken the woman when he had temporary enfide.  Mean as a strikebreaker. 