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Show V P V STUDY OF CRIMINALS Tho thought that old criminals teach young prisoners to persist In crlmo is contradicted by a contributor contribut-or to Scrlbner's Magazine. The writer quotOH a warden of n largo penitentiary peniten-tiary who says: "I have yet to find a case whero I believe that crime has been taught by older criminals to younger ones. I bellove, on tho contrary, that tho usual ndvico of tho old criminal to tho boys is: 'Seo what crlmo has brought mo to, and when you get out of hero behave yourselves," your-selves," She adds: "My whole study of old timers vermes ver-mes this statement; moreover, I am ncllncd to believe thnt In very many Instances tho criminal Impulses ex haust themselves shortly after the period of adolescence, when tho fever of antagonism to all restraint has run Its course, so to say; and I believe tho time Is coming when this branch of tho subject will be scientifically studied." |