This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAFIER III The preceding chapters are the substance of an article which appeared in the Nineteenth Century of February 1901. And my reason for thus reproducing that article is that it supplies the framework for the most important pronouncement of recent years on the subject of the present volume. I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAFIER III The preceding chapters are the substance of an article which appeared in the Nineteenth Century of February 1901. And my reason for thus reproducing that article is that it supplies the framework for the most important pronouncement of recent years on the subject of the present volume. I allude to Mr. Justice Wills' letter to the Times of 21st February 1901. The significance of that letter cannot of course be appreciated apart from the statements upon which it is based; and therefore I have quoted this review article almost in extenso,1 though at some cost to the order and method of my book. Here is the text of Sir Alfred Wills' letter: -- "HABITUAL CRIME AND ITS TREATMENT To the Editor of the ' Times' "Sir, --I have read with the greatest interest Dr. Anderson's article in the Nineteenth Century and After and the leading article in the Times, both relating to the important subject of habitual 1 It will of course be noticed that on pp. 5 and 6 I have brought the statistics down to the year 1905. crime and its proper treatment. I am not at all sorry that the two writers represent widely differing views. There are few questions of any serious moment as to which much good is got by listening to one side only, and what is of the greatest consequence at the present moment is that public attention should be effectively drawn to the questions dealt with by Dr. Anderson and his critic, and the views of those by whom the difficult problem how to deal with habitual and professional crime has been long and seriously considered should be elicited and brought to a focus. "Before touching upon the subject myself I should like to make it very clear what I understand by professional or habitual crime. There are very many persons who come...
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