Show TENDENCY TO criminality oj by DR FRANS ALEJANDER ALEANDER berlin all chil children drex if tree free to respond to their instinctive impulses would not act na as criminals tn instead tead of the popular conception that it is natural to be a law abiding citizens citizen mental science has shown that people are born criminals distinction must be made between the alie chronically criminal and the accidentally criminal as the former class is incapable of reform by a mere chan change chand 0 d of bf environment t but requires mei medical lical treatment the tendency to criminals cri criminality ty is ia acquired it in i the conflicts of childhood between the natural impulses chiefly love and hunger and soc society ieti Y it is often impossible tg find any rational motives for the behavior of the chronically criminal punishment lins haa no deterrent effect on the neurotic criminal excepting ing to stimulate him in an opposite direction from that desired an individual of this type after punishment feels lie he has expiated his crime and ia encouraged to commit new offenses Tenses of |