Criminal Types

systematic and scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human s

"knowledge" of the "powers and functions of the human soul," and at less of prescience that accounts for the by-choice criminal. The

tting of technical terms; but envisage, in the b

ards which the examined instinctively employ every means at their command to euchre. Also, if his limited scope of criminological vision causes him to over-em

into dagger-thrusting brigands, lunging for the hearts of their blood brothers, has no call to classify the alien Sicilian-Italian who makes America his base of operations. That is essentially so, because the period from bib to puberty is the most impressio

omparatively valueless. By the same token, the investigator who is casehardened with technical

gion is "transfer of nervous disease by imitation"; and attuned to the fact that the mode of operating employed with Awasco, the sunny-hearted, comparatively ingenuous "Wop," anxious to help, won't do at all

t of the master-key to the situation, the operator leaves the tested laughing up their sleeves over having fundamentally over-reache

tion of his man, who is to be led only by judicious degrees to the conviction that the questioner is not a mere cog of

with syllables, or so plainly that a recent past master at making mud pies ca

gift to declare the morrow of the disease-free, pre-adolescent mind. The writer is moved to stress this paragraph, because he has observed so many cases whereof full-blown puberty has marked mental metamorphosis; marked it both as to the positive and negative, th

the lap of change entirely beyond the ken of "little man." God, alone, disposes, alike as to mind and matter. Furthermore, pre-criminal motivations are never singular; hence the single-seeing reformer, or investigato

crop out by acquirement in spite of a sound heredity; but it always issues to relative mental disease in the sense that habitually oblique reasoning becomes master of the sub

te aftermath of his self-indulged spree, in which state of low vitality he naturally looks out upon an ugly, drab world. Another nurses a fetich: a ridiculous fetich, to be sure, but one of which you shall not purge his mind with a club of words; indeed, in no way else than through patiently building to his better understanding. Per contra, looms up the capsheaf of them all: the parent-spoiled ego-centric mouther, who is certain sure he could plan a be

to the Prison Congress of 1892," to the effect that "No congenital chronic thickening of the brain membranes, no fixed changes in th

ary to resort to material impressions (in the embryonic state) as the cause of physical, intelle

e objecting strongly for the grateful nurse who often guides to health where the physician

power? Can any man answer unqualifiedly, and if he cannot, just why exclude the psychic from the possibil

less of reversion to type if we follow through far enough; but let opinion be as it may, how is one to check up variations of mood, temperament and dispos

hool to rein: whereas the Morgan family were supremely easy to break and groove? Why, where the blood line was kept pure, did the family temperament

ental power, and the other champion of the rights of individual States, and why was each cock-sure of his ground of contention under the Constitution?

If so, why, when her instinct of motion is changed mechanically from the trot to the pace, does she transmit the latter-acquired instin

idious taste of the lady. Then, it was, the "pacer" made his bow to the horse world. To-day, he speeds better than fifty-fifty with trotters through the "Grand Circ

a base horn, why not the instinct to play a base part? If the instinct to play a base part, why not the instinct to br

mmed up in the last phrase of the preceding paragraph. Therefore,

other hand, that be his lip-service never so fulsome in favor of this or that man, method, or régime of reform, the

wise, if he juggles those averages with his mind clamped to the sporting schedule of the place, he is "faking"; he is faking, even though he cunningly steers clear of the house disci

truth, the determination so far is in appreciable measure self-evident. By the very fact that he elects to be and remain a lawbreaker, he is somewhat of a mental dud, and more of

fully well and will not cast aside lightly at call to carry his

st bid for the best social expression of which he is capable. Thereof his number in the average is not so close to zero as it is commonly marked. Added to his positive mental response, a

n, will get on his nerves to a degree, and may prove baldly misleading; misleading not only as to his latent mental conten

sthetic might suffer close to acute sensory aphasia; and he who bears the burdens of hebetude woul

d processes of intellection whereof the subject had worked from mot

enia; or a given percentage of morons, applicable in general to felonious offenders against the public law, or even as constant for different prison populations. The dan

of the body and soul of her, provided: the shoe is high-heeled and buttons. Such an one should turn awhile from the criminal crowd, to care-free thinking i

ation of the damage done in that state. For example, the fact that a given subject may never hope to master calculus, doesn't mean that he may not be stretched

l smile of blowing pride. Another three weeks, and he could execute on command with few slips through the "School of the Soldier." At the end of three months, he worked regularly and reliably with his company in battalion drill through intr

he idiot as to give off the latter's proverbial scent, can be carried even to the stage of mental and physical development R. was carried "within the year," what cannot be done for the m

ed check on the near mania of the period to attach negatively overdrawn advalorem tags to such children; and then, w

e burden is upon New York City's teaching staff to dig out and decide upon ways a

he better-equipped mass is, in itself, a consideration not to be lightly brushed aside. And once more, that

children shall have, will do well to follow the effects of the edict of those authorities. Certainly that edict won't visit arresting embargo upon the normal mass of children, and must prove a boon to approxi

bes of unthinking comrades. (2) More often than not, the marks initiate in the fallible brains of those tricked into overdetermination, through predisposition amounting to near obsession to make the technical case. (3) The marks, as arrived at under present conception of ration

n and good example. Hence, if solely because segregated-group treatment practically cold-blankets those two, capital influences, as exerted by t

ld be held taboo, and "you can if you will" issue commonly with the force of an unquestionable slogan. No matter how

y involuntary, and, in any instance, the subject can't just figure it out how to beat them. However, acquired ability, plu

faculty naturally keen, backed by a heap of horse sense, and a broad culture; a culture so broad that he can vibrate alike with such as the cheap paddock tout, the crass, ego-centric, oversexed hyperesthenic with a chip on his shoulder, the pl

transmitted traits of character for at least one-hundred-and-eighty years. Back of that, man has not yet probed to impulse for human action of the presen

ther short bridge of years, and Germans who grilled the legions of Varus boasted that they "didn't go to war but to annihilation." Shortly thereafter the doom of the Roman Empire was adumbrated partly by the "lounge-lizard

haos in thousands of killings, the bulk of which were born of hectic, heart

nfluence, with retardation of human progress. Therefore, to trace the backward

unto this year of our Lord, but possibly so. It is given to no man to declare unequivocally that an intrinsic Greek thief of to-day is not,

nsmission, that to allege of the fixed "law," or law

elegated to the domain of the infinite; as for examples, telegraphy, telephony, and the wireless. The wireless,

ively simple reasoning. Also, it causes one to wonder if it be not a part of the Great Scheme of

ur midst, whom, with such signs, the psycho-analyst must read. Of those signs are the singular predilection of the Sicilian-Italian criminal for criminousness by group expression, initiating with the "Mafiauso," headqua

hletics of old Rome got behind that bad business with the bone-breaking gladiator; and spurious leaders of athletics are to-day pressing in America for

0 to 1100 dollars; and on the other hand, that a won't-work, fistic brute demands and commands $300,000, "win or lose," for a few minutes at cutting, slugging and pu

redal felon spurns actual work, and that college authorities have to put hopples on thousands of

can not rest until they have well-nigh ruined régimes of reform

the confirmed criminal; and that to further inoculate with the sporting "bug" a lad already ridden by the vicious by-products of sport, is directly to furnish him with formula for further pervers

ling at Christian altars, should man hold up such as the "two-fisted," cruel, degenerate, human battering ram, as a cri

n who now comes a'shooting at high noon in America. About that, the much-touted aftermath of the W

as if she were motivated to establish the predal felon. That she has done primarily through framing the loosest and most asinine of immigration laws,

o prison with a contemptuous sneer in his heart for repression that doesn't repress. Also, he nurses a smug c

n, who base their reformative foibles on the utterly fallacious idea that reformative rég

on of the law who, either through false sentence, false suspension of sentence, or false

y the square in favor of the criminal in

ses, with inclusive trades teaching featured, is become a huge joke to those in the know: a culmination due very larg

mind. And therefore the psychoanalyst can do his best work not by demonstrating arrest of the social sense, and associate reactions of the criminal, since so

ing prison bill. He must be a very respectable criminologist

the ground up, rather than from the clouds down. When so much shall h