RT Journal
T1 CAin or the future of crime.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD November 16
VO 93
IS 20
SP 1586
OP 1586
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710200070041
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710200070041
AB This is one of the most recent volumes in the Dutton Today and Tomorrow Series. At a time when most of the easy readers of the world are gorging themselves on detective stories and the journalism of crime, it is refreshing to find a sound consideration of the subject with an attempt to understand why our control of crime has failed, and what will be the possibilities of the future. The analysis is clear and dispassionate, thoroughly supported by sound statistics. It reveals the inadequacies of the courts and the failure of legal punishment and of all other methods to touch the crime problem of today. The author is convinced that the causes of crime are bad heredity and had environment, and that the only cure is the elimination of degenerate human stock, the sterilization of all waste human material, and the improvement of environment. If this is true, it