| Show EMBRYO CRIME AND ITS BREEDING SPOTS DR DB F F dow has bas been working at the problem of hereditary criminals and their breeding spots on the theory that the community has rights superior to the individual he advocates that the law be made a factor of the problem with a function which will be recognized as being very much in advance of any of its previous assumptions he contends that famil families lepi proven to be vicious and criminal should fall under the direct supervision of the state that the children should become the of the court and by its authority be separated from the vicious influence of their parents the purpose and theoretical result of this is all right the difficulty to la in the details of the scheme it to Is easy to see how society might be vastly benefited and in certain directions elevated by the removal of the embryo criminal from access to the sustenance of vice but in this free country how this incipient infection is to be condemned by process of law jaw and its victim arrested without trespassing tres passing upon right is far from being clear if by some legal vagary the culprit to be might be designated a criminal before the fact and his person be seized on the grounds of being a menace to the state or something of that sort the problem 1 would be a very easy one it ii is if no trouble to look after a person who ba committed a crime or manifested in a legal sense an intent to do so but 1 crime in the blood though we know it li 14 there beyond peradventure is more or less difficult to punish the accompanying question of break ing up the breeding spots of crime 0 0 6 o called does not involve so many biffi curties cul ties for men and women wha wh have been proven to be utterly aban boned to the pursuits of vice to be per bitted to fortify themselves in the oen cen tres tree of society is an absurd neglect of duty on the part of the governing powers there to is not a great city in t his country which is not infested by tb these es a parasites of civilization this city I 1 fouled with thena them even at this early stage of hofts 8 progress whether it is the fault of the law or the officers that certain portions or of cities become the regular rendezvous of professional criminals the fault surely exists and a serious one it is getting to be if swine way may be legally run IQ for being loose in the streets ets so ought a man without visible means of su support p the most uncultivated hog la IV creation to la more entitled to public con than a laz lazy y dissolute pro fess ional vagrant |
