Excerpt from Crime and the Family While these discussions on prisons and criminal re forms have been prosecuted, little or no attention has been given to this terrible fact - the existence of crime itself. The existence of crime and criminals has seemed to be regarded as the necessary products of social development. Hence no investigations have been prosecuted to* search out the origin and source and cause of this terrible social evil, and ascertain, if possible, upon whom rested the responsibility that criminals were, somewhere in the bosom of society, being constantly educated into a life of crime. This subject is of the deepest moment, and an effort to fathom it can not fail to do good. It will at least open up the inquiry, and point out the mode of its proseca tion. These criminals were once innocent babes, drawmg their life from a mother's breast. They were once in the family, and have come forth from it, not to adorn and bless, but to prey upon society. By whose fault and neglect does this take place? And how can it be prevented, if prevented it can be? In the following'work, I shall endeavorto furnish a solu tion to these all-important questions, by endeavoring to ascertain the origin and cause of crime, and the manner in which these cau'ses may be removed, and the education of criminals prevented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.