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Unfinished Man; A Scientific Analysis of the Psychopath or Human Degenerate
Unfinished Man A Scientific Analysis of the Psychopath or Human Degenerate Author:Albert Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: Greening Subjects: Degeneration Criminals Juvenile delinquents People with disabilities Crime Medical / Neurology Social Science / Criminology Social Science / Handicapped Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original.... more » It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II THE DEGENERATE SECTION A. THE LITERATURE : Criminals are not all degenerates -- The literature in confusion -- Fere on degeneracy -- A break in the continuity of the race -- Degeneration is bio-chemical and pathological, differing from degeneracy -- Morel on degeneracy -- Dr. P. C. Smith on degeneracy -- Otto- lenghi on the criminal. SECTION B. THE QUALITIES : Degeneracy has two distinct meanings -- The mental capacity of the degenerate and their physical endurance -- The degenerate, a weakling, like a bud that cannot flower -- The degenerate too fertile -- Infant mortality, a blessing -- The degenerate, a contradiction. SECTION C. THE BORN CRIMINAL : Congenital criminals are degenerates -- Ferri on the " born criminal " -- The qualities of the born criminal -- All his reactions are slow -- Lombroso on the degenerate. SECTION D. TYPES AND CASES : Suicide and degeneracy -- Vanity -- A case of murder for lust -- Unbridled or inordinate lust -- The clinical aspect of lust crimes -- Breed or pedigree the factor in stability of mind -- Kraft Ebing on the psychopath -- Sexual crime should be dealt with in camerd -- Paranoia, as a cause of crime -- The relation of epilepsy to degeneracy. Section A. -- THE LITERATURE If I were to outline the pages of this chapter in black, I should still fail to express a tithe of the sorrow and pity that we should all feel and must feel for th...« less