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Crime and Its Causes
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Title: Crime and Its Causes
Author: William Douglas Morrison
Release Date: May 9, 2005 [EBook #15803]
Language: English
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CRIME AND ITS CAUSES
BY
WILLIAM DOUGLAS MORRISON
OF H.M. PRISON, WANDSWORTH
LONDON SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., LIM. NEW YORK : CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1902
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"The science of criminology is pursued vigorously among the Italians, but this is one of the first English books to make the phenomena of crime the subject of a strictly scientific investigation."--Daily Chronicle.
"The book is an important addition to the Social Science Series. It throws light upon some of the most complex problems with which society has to deal, and incidentally affords much interesting reading."--Manchester Examiner.
"This is a work which, considering its limits and modest pretensions, it is difficult to over praise. It is a calm and thoughtful study by a writer in whom the deliberate determination to look on things as they are has not extinguished a reasoned faith in the possibility of their amelioration. The work is conceived throughout in a genuinely philosophical spirit."--International Journal of Ethics.
"A thoughtful