As long as men collectively impose their will upon the individual units, they should consider that this imposition calls for intelligence, kindliness, tolerance and a large degree of sympathy and understanding. In considering the welfare of the public: the accused, his family and his friends should be included as a part. It need not be expected that all maladjustments can ever be wiped out. Organization with its close relation of individual units implies conflict. Nevertheless, the effort should be to remove all possible inducement for the violent clashing of individuals and to minimize the severity of such conflicts as are inevitable.
Accidents, inevitability of, 48; conditions affecting chances of, 253; law of averages in, 259. Acquisition, instinct for, 49-50, 51; power of, not a measure of brain capacity, 51-54. Adultery, crime of, 90-91. Adventure, chance for, an incentive to crime, 54, 55, 79, 93. Age, relation of, to crime, 251; and disease, 252, 253. Alcohol, relation of crime to use of, 197-198. America, emotional side of man neglected in, 55; high ratio of property crimes per capita in, 98; system of justice in, superior to that of European countries, 281. Ancestry, effects of, 126-128. _See_ Heredity. Anger, as one underlying motive in punishment, 12; the cause of killings, 83. Animal, man a predatory, 94-100. Animal life, man's origin and development the same as that of other, 29-34. "Anti-social," significance of term, 5-6. Art, satisfaction of emotions by, 55. Automobile, effect of the, on crime, 208-211.
Beauty, appeal of, to man's emotional side, 55. Bible, vengeance as purpose of punishment shown by, 13-14. Boys, development of criminals from, 58-64, 75-80; sex crimes among, 90-91; and the automobile lure, 210-211. Buckle, H. T., "History of Civilization," cited, 102-103. Burglar, development of a, 58-60, 62, 92-93. Burglary, crime of, 92-93.
Capital punishment, question of, 166-171. Chance, man as subject to element of, 255-262. Children, as criminals, 75-80; sex crimes among, 90; rights of property unknown to, 107. Christianity, Pliny's correspondence with Trajan regarding, 225-228. Christians, belief of early, in punishment as vengeance, 14-19. Cities, relative prevalence of crime in, 75-79, 207-208; crimes against property in, 99. Civilization, limitations built up around heredity by, 42-43; growth of crime coincident with growth of, 203-211; the road to decay, 211-212; does not mean the humanizing of men, 228-229; new evils and new complexities with each new, 229. Confidence game in obtaining property, law against, 137. Conscience, as a guide to conduct, 4-5, 109. Conspiracy, statute concerning, 136-137. Convicts, in prison and after 120-123, 230-232; good found in, 181. Courts, growth in number and kind of, 139. Crime, defined, 1-11; purpose of punishment of, 12-27; failure of punishment as a deterrent from, 21-24; need for better understanding of, by the public, 27; responsibility for, 28-36; part played by heredity and environment in, 36; among women, 71-74; of homicide, 81-87; due to sex relations, 88-91; of robbery and burglary, 92-93; performed against property, 101-108; question of increase in, 134-142; industrialism and, 203-208; increase of, due to the automobile, 208-211; war and, 213-220; disease, accident, and, 250-254; elements of luck and chance as related to, 255-262; remedies for, 273-285. Criminal, scope of word, 1-6; one who violates "folk-ways" of his community, 6-9; purpose of punishment of the, 12-27; need for better understanding of, 27; reasons for existence of, 56-70; the female, 71-74; the juvenile, 75-80; attitude of the, 109-115; the law and the, 116-129; effect on others of punishment of, 158-160; stigmata of, 172-177; the good in the, 178-182; pardon, parole, and placing on probation of, 263-272. Criminal conduct, psychology of, 44-55.