Education, Personality, and Crime. By Albert Wilson, M.D. (Greening and
Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Wilson's researches into the physiological conditions of the criminal and the feeble-minded and non-normal individuals generally are interesting and valuable. So are the facts which he adduces in the matter of heredity, and the very curious details as to change of personalities. In one instance there were as many as ten. When we come to his practical conclusions, we must own to being not a little staggered. " The greatest boon to the nation would be a Marriage Bureau, scientifically conducted ender Government control." So we get back to Plato's "Republic." The permanent incarceration of the irreclaimable criminal is more within the range of practical politics. The folly of sending an offender to prison for sixty or seventy short terms is obvious. We are conscious that we are not giving an adequate recognition to Dr. Wilson's laborious research, but we can at least commend his book to the attention of our readers.
Previous page
