Show peculiarities of the female criminal the science of 0 criminology has been making great of 0 late and the general public has become quite accustomed cus tomed to the attitude taken by its chief exponents who regard tile the criminal as the victim or of a disease otten often or as from moral malformation this familiarity ot of the public with a now new and stalking sli stil king conception whether it Is altogether a true one la Is yet the subject of heated controversy Is largely due to the genius and perseverance of the eminent italian criminologist professor cesare lombroso professor lombroso has recently riven given in a book on the female offender the results of hla his observations on females as distinguished from male criminals and draws some sticking sti king conclusions below are a few paragraphs from a review of professor Lomb Lombroso rosos a work by the hospital loudon london october aith prof theory la Is briefly hint tho criminal type I 1 is a recurrence to old anc estial forms of low development a 1 product or of pathological and atavistic anomalies ano malles I 1 diio flo criminal in im tact fact stands st midway between the lunatic and the savage the theory I 1 13 built up tip on the observation not of marked peculiarities stamping tile tho offender with a brand easy casy to be recognized but on oil countless small deviations from tho the normal type shared by tho the criminal population it Is true it in common with many law abiding individuals but in a far higher percentage and especially significant in combination tho actual physical peculiarities observed among female prisoners are arc not very numerous or striking among them may bo be mentioned heavy beavy jaws and high h aih cheekbones cheek check bones stature strength of inns and alid length of limbs lamba was found to be below tho the average and though the facial diameter was larger the cranial diameter was considerably less than in normal subjects much of tile the evil appears to be duo to the brain the postmortem post mortem examination of thirty three reve revealed alcA in eleven out of the number grave macroscopic lesion of the central system and its in luera vo lucra passing to skull anomalies they were found loss less frequent among lein malo a lc than among male criminals always excepting tho the skulls of murder esmas which are arc peculiar the skull of chaalotte chai lotto lotte corday Is cited in this connection as displaying very sulking striking irregularities the following small email anomalies ire arc among those which have been observed to recur among criminal find and fallen women racial facial asymmetry or it a striking want avant oi of correspondence correspond enoe between the two sides of the lie face has been noticed in 77 per cent irregularity t y in the shape of the oars cars is ijar twice as common among criminals and an projecting ears appear to he be more especially capeci pee ally lally of tho the swi slid and tile the a crooked nose mai ma be noted among one out of every four evildoers while the flat nose Is more distinctive of the law abiding citizen it Is a detect defeet hect shared in common with a large pr proportion of incendiaries A virile physiognomy combined often tho the voice and larynx of a trian man As etero ero observed also in a largo large number of female offenders find and certain distinctly degenerate types such euch as the cast of taco face known as tho the mongolian physiognomy and hypertrophy of the muscles of the neck observable in large quadrupeds were not wanting cleft palate harelip hare lip lett left handedness anomalous ous teeth though common enough am among 0 n were found to be twice as f frequent r c among criminals the tha sense of touch taste smell an and hearing were experimented on by consent of the prisoners and wore were found to bo be considerably less acute than in normal subjects in sense of smell especially tho criminal class clasa seems to lie be singularly deficient fici ent and only three out of fifteen of the born criminals had a normal flold field of vision all these tacio alomal anomalies les are far less prominent and frequent in females than in males and tho the true criminal type Is comparan com comparatively vely seldom 0 in encountered in women the professors researches have evidently not conduced to a high opinion of women in general pe even apart from the criminal classes and that a fund ot of immorality Is latent in every female that in the normal female the sense of property Is not strong and that lt it Is very difficult tor for women to play without cheating passing from these ungallant accusations this Is the cautious final comment made by the Irn hospital spital it may bo be asked aked what good e can an result from all this laborious blassl classification n cation of minute much of it doubtless Is over elaborated and beside the maik in ink which Is disputed ground the re cordi of many din orent erent observers varying in many important points but the broad fact remains that certain children are born into tile the world with well benned denned traits of mind andl ody distinct from their fel fellows aws and that of cheso children a largo large proportion are found in later ufa life to have run rim oft off the track and become absorbed in tile tho criminal class A recent investigation in london schools has bai shown that the number of these children amounts to 18 per cent Js Is there thevenot the inot some reason to bellevo believe that wise treatment and special training from the beginning might bring under control tile the passions of which uie tho bodily ano mail bialles ca presenta faint and ott oft in aex arid and savo save many lives from mischief and ultimate despa despair matir r I 1 |