Copyright, 1917,

BY LITTLE, Brown, and COMPANY.

All rights reserved

Published November, 1917

Norwood Press

Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

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TO ONE WHO SAW THE REALLY GREAT

SIGNIFICANCE IN THE PENAL PROBLEMS

OF TO-DAY, GRASPED THE FORCES SHAPING FOR THIS STRUGGLE, AND ORGANIZED THESE FORCES TO BE COMPREHENSIVE AND POTENTIAL IN THE MAKING OF A NEW PENAL SYSTEM DEVELOPING OUT OF THE CONDITIONS POR

TRAYED BY THIS BOOK-TO OUR

PRESIDENT, ADOLPH LEWISOHN.

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INTRODUCTION

THE last twenty-five years have marked many movements for the amelioration of conditions under which people live and labor. Housing, Child Labor, Industrial Conditions, Tuberculosis, Insanity, all have come under our purview. In each case the movement has become definite and effective when academic moralizing has given place to personal visitation, when suggestion and direction have been had from those who have looked for themselves and speak with the authority of experience.

Penology, criminology, etc., have been the speculation of the wise in their own conceit. The prisoner has remained an abstraction to be babbled about, though never really known—a thing apart, disowned, investigated at arm's length for fear that the contagion might possess the investigator.

The humanness and fallibility of convicted and unconvicted alike have raised a barrier between the prisoner and those who attempted to study him. His criminal characteristics, his love of evil, and the outlawry of his practices have all been discussed in the third person, but it has been dangerous to admit that he is simply a man like ourselves, the difference being that a chance turn of the wheel of justice has singled out one of his acts and condemned it with the power of the law.