Crime and Its Causes

Project Gutenberg's Crime and Its Causes, by William Douglas Morrison This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Crime and Its Causes Author: William Douglas Morrison Release Date: May 9, 2005 [EBook #15803] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CRIME AND ITS CAUSES *** Produced by Afra Ullah and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. 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.