Source: The Present Day Problem of Crime
Source type: book
Document type: book chapter
Document title: “The Problem of Crime”
Author(s): Currier, Albert H.
Publisher: Gorham Press
Publisher location: Boston, Massachusetts
Year of publication: 1912
Pagination: 11-34 (excerpt below includes only page 17)

Leon Czolgosz.

The excerpt below constitutes the beginning of the fifth numbered item in a subsection of this chapter titled “Classes of Criminals.” The author introduces the subsection as follows:

The majority are young men from sixteen to thirty (National Prison Association, ’95, page 311). Criminals are variously classified in the literature of penology and the parlance of the Courts. According to the frequency, turpitude and degree of their offenses they may be denominated, delinquents, misdemeanants, first offenders, or petty offenders, and felons, atrocious offenders, incorrigible criminals, defectives, recidivists,—those hardened in crime, and repeatedly suffering the penalty of their misdeeds without any sign of amendment. A better classification is one that indicates the psychological and social conditions under which crimes are committed.