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A VERY strong plea for the humanitarian and scientific treatment of the criminal. At the same time, the author's wholesale rejection of the death sentence for murder is a matter for considerable argument. He thinks that the deterrent effect of hanging is of small moment. Let him visit a few of the London bars and study the occupants, and say if fear does not keep some of them from taking the lives of their fellow-creatures. Why do racecourse gangs work in gangs? For one reason—because of the individual's fear of punishment and hope of avoiding it in the crowd. There is, however, much very good sense in the book, and the author's plea for the delinquent child is sound and his peep into the future of crime not far off what will be truth.
Cain; or, The Future of Crime.
George
Godwin
By. (To-day and To-morrow Series.) Pp. 108. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1928.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Cain; or, The Future of Crime . Nature 122, 605 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122605b0
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