Beauty, appeal of, to man’s emotional side, 55. 
Bible, vengeance as purpose of punishment shown by, 13-14. 
Boys, development of criminals from, 58-64, 75-80;
  sex crimes among, 90-91;
  and the automobile lure, 210-211. 
Buckle, H. T., “History of Civilization,” cited, 102-103. 
Burglar, development of a, 58-60, 62, 92-93. 
Burglary, crime of, 92-93.

Capital punishment, question of, 166-171. 
Chance, man as subject to element of, 255-262. 
Children, as criminals, 75-80;
  sex crimes among, 90;
  rights of property unknown to, 107. 
Christianity, Pliny’s correspondence with Trajan regarding, 225-228. 
Christians, belief of early, in punishment as vengeance, 14-19. 
Cities, relative prevalence of crime in, 75-79, 207-208;
  crimes against property in, 99. 
Civilization, limitations built up around heredity by, 42-43;
  growth of crime coincident with growth of, 203-211;
  the road to decay, 211-212;
  does not mean the humanizing of men, 228-229;
  new evils and new complexities with each new, 229. 
Confidence game in obtaining property, law against, 137. 
Conscience, as a guide to conduct, 4-5, 109. 
Conspiracy, statute concerning, 136-137. 
Convicts, in prison and after 120-123, 230-232;
  good found in, 181. 
Courts, growth in number and kind of, 139. 
Crime, defined, 1-11;
  purpose of punishment of, 12-27;
  failure of punishment as a deterrent from, 21-24;
  need for better understanding of, by the public, 27;
  responsibility for, 28-36;
  part played by heredity and environment in, 36;
  among women, 71-74;
  of homicide, 81-87;
  due to sex relations, 88-91;
  of robbery and burglary, 92-93;
  performed against property, 101-108;
  question of increase in, 134-142;
  industrialism and, 203-208;
  increase of, due to the automobile, 208-211;
  war and, 213-220;
  disease, accident, and, 250-254;
  elements of luck and chance as related to, 255-262;
  remedies for, 273-285. 
Criminal, scope of word, 1-6;
  one who violates “folk-ways” of his community, 6-9;
  purpose of punishment of the, 12-27;
  need for better understanding of, 27;
  reasons for existence of, 56-70;
  the female, 71-74;
  the juvenile, 75-80;
  attitude of the, 109-115;
  the law and the, 116-129;
  effect on others of punishment of, 158-160;
  stigmata of, 172-177;
  the good in the, 178-182;
  pardon, parole, and placing on probation of, 263-272. 
Criminal conduct, psychology of, 44-55.

Dante, the hell of, 15. 
Death penalty, methods of inflicting, 163. 
Defectives, discussion of the, 183 ff.;
  in prisons, 184-185;
  proposed isolation or sterilization of, 233-249. 
Disease, treatment of crime contrasted with that of, 139-140, 154,
  230-232;
  crime, accidents, and, 250-253. 
Doctors, employment of, in trials, as experts, 143-149. 
Dugdale, R.L., study of “The Jukes” by, 244-248.