Show I Americas American Criminology gy Lags Behind Progress gress Professor Says BUFFALO X N Y UP UP UP-Amerl- Ameri American can criminology has failed to keep step with the rapid progress a of psychology psychology and related s sciences lences according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to Dr Nathan Cantor of or the University of or Buffalo In a recent address before the tho Social Science club Cantor said Next to theology criminology has probably made the least of our new knowledge e of human nature and conduct For the past 30 years rears or so Bo a great rest deal of oC information V has hag been laboriously gathered gathered- much of or which is uniformly accepted accept accept- ed ed-by ed by neurologists physiologists and psychologists This could all be applied 1 to the field of o crime Instead our statesmen lawyers clerics and respectable people ople in I gen general ral Ignore overlook or 01 den deny the he far reaching changes implied b bj by altered views o of the growth g of oC hu human human human hu- hu man per personality Our treatment of oC criminals r r r fleets this contrasting contrasting- point o of view Instead of treating each defendant as an individual whose social economic economic economic eco eco- and psychological background Is quite unlike every ever other defendants defendant's defendants defendant's defend defend- ants ant's we convict and punish criminals criminals crim crim- according to the crime committed com com- The prevailing psychological t philosophy is the reform of or the criminal while practically it is the tho rC Cn revenge e of oC society against th the nal sal It Is punishment not reform |