CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
AN INTERESTING INVESTIGATION, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 23. The most important criminological work ever conducted has been 1 summarised and published by the Prisons Committee under the superintendence of Dr. Karl Pearson. Three thousand convicts were measured and watched, and the results have proved that a criminal type does not exist. Criminals do not possess abnormal physical or mental characteristics, but belong largely to the defective'Ciass, physically and mentally, but criminality is not a morbid state akin to physical disease. The report, nevertheless, admits thsit criminality is subject to heredity.—Times.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1919, Page 5
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94CRIME AND CRIMINALS. Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1919, Page 5
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