The Offender and His Relations to Law and Society (Classic Reprint) in Bloomington, MN

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How are we to deal with the Offender? There are those who are able to understand but a single phase of the problem and who accordingly hold to a single remedy as a cure-all. According to their respective points of View they urge the redrafting of penal laws, or the reorganization of courts, or the abolition of grand juries, or the elimination of the shortcomings of the police, or the reorganization of prisons, or the introduction Of socialism and phases of communism, or the sterilization of idiots and of the feeble-minded, or improvements in religious, in educational, in recreational, and in health work.
It is certain, however, that the problem cannot be solved merely by changes in a single governmental institution, nor by the improvement of social condi tions, nor by the adoption of certain expedients. The gradual and steady improvement of all social condi tions and of all social and governmental institutions, and the gradual elimination of conditions which impede progress are the only sure bases of future progress.
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