The Young Malefactor: a Study in Juvenile Delinquency, Its Causes And Treatment
The Young Malefactor: a Study in Juvenile Delinquency, Its Causes And Treatment
Thomas Travis
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The question then is, are these stigmata of crime or are they indications of degeneracy, occurring also among the abnormal or insane who are not criminal ? The Italian School claims that the criminal, and therefore by implication the delinquent, is The claim of the a person marked by typical body Italian School. An( j m i n d ; that his singularities (stigmata) have a causative significance, an evolutionary or atavistic connection, and dis- cover not only the criminal but also the type of crime... to which he is or will be addicted. It THE YOUNG MALEFACTOR. 55 will put the claim fully before us if we look at the narrative of its rise. Very early in history an extraordinary man was thought to have an unusual body almost Historical develop- a11 founders of religion, for Teory^ tbe Btigmata example, were supposed to have (a. ) Hindoo BOH*, superhuman birth. An ugly body was associated with a bad man and a beautiful body belonged to the good. For instance, the Buddhist sources describe Gau- tama so : " The foot of Gautama came to the ground as lightly as if it had been cotton wool.
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