Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
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About This Book
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union He is remembered for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes Trial (1925). Darrow began his career as a corporate lawyer and soon switched to criminal law. Darrow was an eloquent speaker and often spoke out against the death penalty. Here Darrow presents his ideas on the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. Darrow says, "My main effort is to show that the laws that control human behavior are as fi...
Chapters (45)
- CRIME
- ITS CAUSE AND TREATMENT
- 1922
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CRIME ITS CAUSE AND TREATMENT
- I WHAT IS CRIME?
- II PURPOSE OF PUNISHMENT
- III RESPONSIBILITY FOR CRIME
- IV ENVIRONMENT
- V ADJUSTING HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT
- VI PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT
- VII THE CRIMINAL
- VIII THE FEMALE CRIMINAL
- IX JUVENILE CRIMINALS
- X HOMICIDE
- XI SEX CRIMES
- XII ROBBERY AND BURGLARY
- XIII MAN AS A PREDATORY ANIMAL
- XIV CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY
- XV ATTITUDE OF THE CRIMINAL
- XVI THE LAW AND THE CRIMINAL
- XVII REPEALING LAWS
- XVIII IS CRIME INCREASING?
- XIX MEDICAL EXPERTS
- XX PUNISHMENT
- XXI THE EFFECT OF PUNISHMENT ON OTHERS
- XXII EVOLUTION OF PUNISHMENT
- XXIII CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
- XXIV STIGMATA OF THE CRIMINAL
- XXV THE GOOD IN CRIMINALS
- XXVI THE DEFECTIVE AND INSANE
- XXVII SOCIAL CONTROL
- XXVIII INDUSTRIALISM AND CRIME
- XXIX WAR AND CRIME
- XXX CIVILIZATION AND CRIME
- XXXI THE CONVICT
- XXXII ISOLATION AND STERILIZATION
- XXXIII CRIME, DISEASE AND ACCIDENT
- XXXIV LUCK AND CHANCE
- XXXV PARDONS AND PAROLES
- XXXVI REMEDIES
- THE END
- INDEX
- Hyperlinks link to beginning of chapter
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