item: #1 of 3 id: 10580 author: Ferri, Enrico title: The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 date: None words: 24125 flesch: 54 summary: The method which we, on the other hand, have inaugurated is the following: Before we study crime from the point of view of a juristic phenomenon, we must study the causes to which the annual recurrence of crimes in all countries is due. It is worth more to humanity to reduce the number of crimes than to reduce the dread sufferings of criminal punishments, although even this is a noble work, after the evil plant of crime has been permitted to grow in the realm of life. keywords: 19th; absolute; anthropological; article; attention; beccaria; beings; better; blood; brain; case; causes; center; century; certain; cesare; character; circumstances; civilization; classic; classic school; code; collective; commit; conclusions; conditions; confinement; conscience; consciousness; conviction; country; course; crime; criminal; criminal code; criminal justice; criminal law; criminal science; criminality; criminology; daily; dangerous; day; death; denial; determined; development; different; disease; earth; economic; effect; entire; environment; exceptional; existence; extenuating; factor; faith; family; far; field; form; free; function; fundamental; future; grave; greater; half; hand; historical; human; human life; humanity; hygiene; idea; illusion; imprisonment; individual; influence; insane; insanity; instance; intellectual; internal; invitation; italy; judge; justice; labor; law; laws; legislator; life; little; lives; living; man; manslaughter; matter; means; measures; medicine; method; middle; mind; modern; moment; months; moral; murder; naples; natural; necessary; necessity; new; normal; number; old; order; organic; origin; passion; penal; penalties; penalty; people; personality; phenomenon; physical; place; point; police; positive; positive school; practical; present; prevention; problem; progress; property; psychological; psychology; public; punishment; question; race; reason; remedies; remedy; repression; responsibility; responsible; result; right; school; science; scientific; sentence; social; social conditions; social life; society; study; telluric; theft; theory; thought; time; today; treatment; true; truth; university; want; way; work; world; years cache: 10580.txt plain text: 10580.txt item: #2 of 3 id: 29895 author: Lombroso, Gina title: Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso date: None words: 71240 flesch: 55 summary: TATTOOING This personal decoration so often found on great criminals is one of the strangest relics of a former state. Many criminals do not realise the immorality of their actions. keywords: able; abnormal; absence; absent; absurd; abuse; account; action; acts; acute; addition; adults; affection; age; aid; alcoholism; alienation; america; anarchists; ancient; animals; anomalies; anomaly; antecedents; anthropological; anthropology; anti; apes; appearance; application; arms; army; arrest; arson; asylums; asymmetry; atavistic; attacks; attempt; attention; author; bad; basis; beard; beings; best; better; birth; blood; bocca; body; bones; book; boys; brain; brigand; canines; capable; capital; career; careful; cases; cause; cells; cephalic; cerebral; certain; cesare; change; chapter; characteristics; characters; chief; childhood; children; chronic; circumstances; civilised; class; classes; code; colony; committed; common; community; companions; complete; conclusion; conditions; conduct; congenital; consists; constant; contact; contrary; convicts; corresponding; country; court; cranial; crime; criminal anthropology; 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indeed, and for that matter, most people are quite content to do no more than they need; and in spite of all that has been said of the blessedness of labour, there are few of the most earnest preachers against the idleness of others who would prefer to work longer hours for less pay rather than shorter hours for more. The desire to shine among others is at the root of much of the foolish and criminal conduct of many men and women. keywords: ability; able; absence; account; actions; acts; administration; advantage; advice; affairs; aid; apparent; appeal; appearance; arrest; assaults; assistance; association; asylum; attempt; attention; attitude; authorities; authority; bad; behaviour; best; better; blame; board; body; books; boy; boys; break; business; care; case; causes; cells; certain; chance; changes; chapter; character; charge; children; circumstances; citizens; city; civil; class; classes; clothing; commissioners; common; community; company; complaint; concerned; conditions; conduct; considerable; consideration; contact; control; cost; country; course; court; crime; criminal; culprit; danger; day; days; deal; dealing; death; defect; defective; degree; desire; destitute; detention; diet; differences; different; difficult; direct; discharged; disease; district; doctor; door; doubt; drink; drinking; drunkenness; duties; duty; early; easier; easy; effect; effort; employers; employment; enquiry; evidence; evil; examination; exercise; expense; experience; extent; fact; failure; family; father; favour; fear; feeling; fellow; fine; fit; food; foolish; force; form; free; friends; gain; general; girls; glasgow; good; great; greater; ground; guilty; habits; habitual; hand; hard; head; health; help; heredity; higher; home; honest; hope; hours; house; ignorance; ill; importance; imprisonment; influence; information; inmates; insane; insanity; institution; intention; interest; jealousy; judge; judgment; kind; know; knowledge; labour; lads; language; large; law; laws; lawyer; lead; liable; liberated; liberation; liberty; licence; life; likely; little; lives; living; local; long; look; loss; lost; lunatic; majority; making; man; manner; married; matter; means; medical; medical man; members; men; mental; method; military; mind; mischief; misconduct; money; months; mother; murder; nature; necessary; need; neglect; neighbours; new; nuisance; number; object; observation; occupation; offences; offenders; officer; officials; old; operation; opinion; opportunities; opportunity; order; ordinary; outside; overcrowding; parents; parliament; parts; past; patient; pay; people; period; person; personal; petty; physical; place; play; point; police; political; poor; poorhouse; position; possible; poverty; power; practice; present; preventive; principle; prison; prison commissioners; prison life; prisoners; private; probation; process; professional; profit; proper; property; proportion; provision; public; punishment; purpose; qualities; question; rate; rational; real; reason; reasonable; recreation; reform; reformatory; regard; regulations; relation; religious; report; reputation; required; respect; respectable; responsibility; result; return; right; risk; room; routine; rules; save; school; scotland; secretary; sense; sentence; service; set; sex; sheriff; short; shows; sick; similar; small; sober; social; society; special; spirit; spite; standard; standpoint; state; statement; story; street; study; subject; sufficient; suitable; supervision; support; surgeon; system; tell; temper; tendency; term; theft; things; time; town; training; treatment; trouble; true; unable; uncommon; unfit; use; useful; vice; vicious; view; visitors; visits; wages; want; way; wife; willing; women; work; working; world; worse; wrong; wrongdoing; years; young; young man cache: 43986.txt plain text: 43986.txt