The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1913. A THEORY ATTACKED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 13, 16 September 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1913. A THEORY ATTACKED.

The theory, Jong accepted, of the criminal lace and head, is strongly attacked by Dr. Goring, medical ofjiicer of Pankhurst Prison in England. His views are set out in a recently jissued Blue Book in which he declares not only that the various sorts of 'criminals cannot be recognised from | their faces, but that there is not even !a definite type of criminal at all. The nose of the thief is not, as Lombroso taught, "short and large," nor is the |eye of homicide "glassy, cold, and fixed." Faces are non-committal, often deceptive in this respect. Dr. Goring deals chiefly with the English criminal and admits at anyrate that 'the convict has certain marked characteristics ; that he is defective in [physical strength, in weight, in statjure, and mentality. Statistics show ihiin to be in weight and height disjtiiiistly inferior to the average man. Iruii.,,.-.,-;..,, i,„ .1,.,.,. „,,( a. ...;..j

■much from the normal standard. This ■ authority further tells u« that in head measurements the criminal does not; differ perceptibly from the University I undergraduate of Oxford or Cam-, bridge. Dr. Goring also asserts that ithe belief that a low forehead connote;; criminality and a high forehead intelli-j geuce is fallacious, and shows -that ! different classes of criminals differ I very little among themselves, and vary] very little from the standard of the population, save in height and weight, | while hospital inmates, who may be

quite free from crime, but are weak j of physique, signally resemble genuine criminals in many respects. Prom I which it appears that even in crime heredity has much to answer for and that a good physique is likely to en-; able a man ,to live in. honesty and . good citizenship. ;