Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Journal of

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF

Criminal Law
Law and
Criminology

Official Organ of the American Institute of Criminal Law and
Criminology; of the American Prison Association; and
of the American Society of Military Law

EDITORIALS.

CONTENTS

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Program of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology-Sustaining Members of the Institute Junk Dealing and Juvenile Delinquency.

CONTRIBUTE DARTICLES.

1. Some Lessons for Civilian Justice to be Learned from Military Justice

2. An International Murder Trial.

3. Insanity and Criminal Responsibility
of the Institute)...

4. Expert Testimony

5. Finger-Print Characteristics

165

.John H. Wigmore 170 ...William Renwick Riddell 176 (Report of Committee A Victor P. Arnold, Chairman 184 E. Ray Stevens 188 .L. W. LaChard 195 Donald B. Creecy 202

7. What Minneapolis Has Done and Should Do for the Feeble

minded

...William Hodson 208

On the Relation of Mental Defect to Delinquency; A Study of
Cases before the Voluntary Defenders Committee of New
York City
..Benjamin Malzberg 218

9. Indeterminate Sentence, Release on Parole and Pardon (Report
of Committee F of the Institute) Edward Lindsey, Chairman 223
10. Revision of the Atcherley modus operandi System..

...August Vollmer 229 CORRESPONDENCE (275)-JUDICIAL DECISIONS (278)-NOTES. AND ABSTRACTS (282)-REVIEWS AND CRITICISMS (308).

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THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
By Northwestern University Press
Northwestern University Building

81 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois

Entered as second-class matter, November 5, 1910, at Chicago, Illinois,
under the act of March 3, 1879.

American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology

OBJECT. The object of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology “shall be to further the scientific study of crime, criminal law and procedure, to formulate and promote measures for solving the problems connected therewith and co-ordinate the effort of individuals and of organizations interested in the administration of certain speedy justice."

ORGANIZATION. Membership.-The institute is both a national and a local organization, the national organization being the American Institute and the local organization being known as

State Branch of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology," with such local branches of cities, counties or other districts for local work, meetings and investigations as the state branch may desire, such local branches to fix their dues and elect their officers subject to the approval of the state branch. Applications for membership in the American Institute itself should be addressed to the secretary, and are passed upon by the Executive Board. Applications for membership in the state branch where the applicant resides should be sent to the secretary of such state branch or to the secretary of the American Institute, who will forward it to the secretary of the state branch.

INFORMATION. All communications with reference to the work of the Institute and membership therein should be addressed to:

phia.

Secretary, American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 819 Land Title Building, Philadel

DUES. The annual dues of the American Institute are $2.00. The annual subscription to the JOURNAL is $3.00, thus giving all the advantages of the Institute and the JOURNAL for $5.00 per year. The annual dues of the state branches are such as each state branch may fix. Where a state branch is organized, residents of that state must join through it, and membership will include membership in the American Institute.

OFFICERS: The general officers of the Institute and Executive Board are:

PRESIDENT:

Hugo Pam, Judge of the Superior Court, Chicago, Ill.

VICE-PRESIDENTS:

William Renwick Riddell, Justice of the Supreme Court, Toronto, Can.

August Vollmer, Chief of Police, Berkeley, Cal.

Thomas C. O'Brien, Prison Commissioner, Boston, Mass.

TREASURER:

Bronson Winthrop, 32 Liberty Street, New York City.

SECRETARY:

Edwin M. Abbott, former member of the Legislature and Chairman of State Commission on Amendment and Revision of Penal Laws, Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa.

EXECUTIVE BOARD:

For the term expiring 1919:

Louis N. Robinson, Professor of Statistics, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.

Joel D. Hunter, General Superintendent, United Charities, Chicago.

Chester G. Vernier, Professor of Law in Stanford University, Stanford University, Cal.

Bernard J. Glueck, Director Psychopathic Laboratory, State Penitentiary, Ossining, N. Y.

For the term expiring 1920:

Franklin Chase Hoyt, Chief Justice of the Children's Court, New York City.

Thomas W. Salmon, M. D., Medical Director of the National Committee on Mental Hygene, New
York City.

Herman M. Adler, M. D., Illinois State Criminologist and Director of the Juvenile Psychopathic
Institute, Chicago.

For the term expiring 1921:

James Bronson Reynolds, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Voluntary Defender's Coalmittee, New York.

James J. Barbour, State Senator, Chicago, Ill.

James H. Tufts, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

F. Emory Lyon, Superintendent Central Howard Association, Chicago, Ill.

Ex-Officio:

John H. Wigmore, Professor of Law in Northwestern University, 31 W. Lake Street, Chicago, Ill.
Nathan William MacChesney, of the Chicago Bar; Commissioner on Uniform State Laws, 80
No. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill.

John B. Winslow, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

Orrin N. Carter, Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, Chicago, Ill.

Quincey A. Myers, Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.

Ira E. Robinson, former President Judge Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia,
Grafton, W. Va.

John P. Briscoe, Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, Prince Frederick, Md.

George W. Kirchwey, former Dean of the School of Law, Columbia University, New York City.
Frederic B. Crossley, Managing Director of the Institute, Librarian of the Elbert H. Gary Col-
lection of Criminal Law and Criminology, Northwestern University Law School, 31 W. Lake
St., Chicago, Ill.

Robert H. Gault, Managing Editor of the Journal of the Institute, Professor of Psychology in Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

Journal of the American Institute of
Criminal Law and Criminology

Official Organ of the American Institute of Criminal Law and
Criminology; of the American Prison Association; and

of the American Society of Military Law.

Managing Editor, ROBERT H. GAULT,

Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University.

Managing Director, FREDERIC B. CROSSLEY,

Librarian of the Elbert H. Gary Collection of Criminal Law and
Criminology, Northwestern University.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Herman Adler, Illinois State Criminologist, Chicago.

Frederic B. Crossley, Librarian of the Elbert H. Gary Collection of Criminal Law and Criminology, Northwestern University.

Katherine Bement Davis, Chairman, Parole Board, New York City.

George F. Deiser, Member of the Philadelphia Bar.

Charles A. De Courcy, Justice of Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

Robert Ferrari, Member of the New York City Bar.

Raymond B. Fosdick, Bureau of Social
Hygiene, New York City.

James W. Garner, Professor of Political
Science, University of Illinois.
Bernard Glueck, Director Psychopathic
Laboratory, State Prison, Ossining, N. Y.
William G. Hale, Professor of Law, Uni-
versity of Illinois.

William Healy, Director of the Judge
Baker Foundation, Boston.

Joel D. Hunter, General Superintendent, United Charities, Chicago.

Edwin R. Keedy, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania.

Edward Lindsey, Member of the Warren (Pa.) Bar.

F. Emory Lyon, Superintendent Central Howard Association, Chicago.

Adolf Meyer, Professor of Psychiatry, John Hopkins University.

Nathan William MacChesney, of the Chicago Bar; former President of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology; Lt. Col., Judge Advocate, Central Division, Chicago.

Robert W. Millar, Professor of Law, Northwestern University.

Hugo Pam, Justice of the Superior Court of Cook County; President of the Institute, Chicago.

Edwin W. Sims, Member of the Chicago Bar: President of the Chicago Crime Commission.

Arthur J. Todd, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota.

Chester G. Vernier, Professor of Law, Stanford University, Cal.

August Vollmer, Chief of Police, Berkeley, California.

Guy Montrose Whipple, Professor of Applied Psychology and Director of the Bureau of Educational Research, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.

John H. Wigmore, Dean of the Northwestern University Law School; Lt. Col., Judge Advocate, Washington, D. C. Elmer A. Wilcox, Professor of Law, University of Iowa.

EDITORIALS:

CONTENTS

Program of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American
Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology-Sustaining
Members of the Institute-Junk Dealing and Juvenile De-
linquency

CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES:

1. Some Lessons for Civilian Justice to be Learned from

Military Justice

167

..John H. Wigmore 170 2. An International Murder Trial..William Renwick Riddell 176

3. Insanity and Criminal Responsibility (Report of Commit-

tee A of the Institute)......Victor P. Arnold, Chairman 184

4. Expert Testimony

5. Finger-Print Characteristics..

Courts-Martial......

.E. Ray Stevens 188

.L. W. LaChard 195