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IN his Chadwick Lecture on “The Differentiation, Prevention and Treatment of Anti-Social Behaviour Disorders” delivered on December 8, Dr. Norwood East has made a succinct but systematic review of the main established facts regarding the causation of crime, and has presented a convincing argument for the view that crime is as much a scientific as a legal or a medical problem. Dr. East was for many years one of H.M. Commissioners of Prisons, and Medical Inspector of Prisons in England and Wales. He has recently completed a scientific study on an extensive scale of the medical, social and psychological aspects of crime, more particularly among adolescents (see NATURE, September 26, p. 361). He is therefore able to speak both with experience and authority ; and much of his lecture is in fact concerned with the practical corollaries to be deduced from the inquiries that he has made.
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PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. Nature 151, 9–11 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151009a0
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