THE JUKES. Ill 



ary tendencies, and in which the criminal habit has not become 

 fixed. 



4. Convicts of low vitality, born of pauper parents, who have left 

 them orphans in childhood so that they have drifted into habitual 

 crime. 



5. Illegitimate children born of intemperate, vicious and criminal 

 parents, who have trained them to crime. 



These types have, in addition to parental neglect, a hereditary 

 tendency to crime, pauperism or premature death. Many are, how- 

 ever, reformable, and, if such treatment is to be applied, the pre- 

 requisite is a knowledge of the ancestral defects, because the heredity 

 is the main factor in their lives. 



6. Contrivers of crime who look upon crime as a legitimate 

 business, who " don't do no light things," but " go in for big money," 

 and are irreclaimable. 



7. Active executors of crime, who have past their thirty -fifth 

 year and are casting about to abandon the field as executors of 

 crimes, to enter that of crime capitalists. 



8. Panders to the vices of criminals, themselves the active 

 abettors in facilitating crime. 



In this series, whatever may have been the road which each has 

 travelled, whether forecast by hereditary transmission or induced by 

 miseducated childhood, these men, past reform, dangerous and 

 desperate, are of service to the State only as examples of the aus- 

 terity of her justice. 



9. Men who have acquired epilepsy or insanity, and whose crimes 

 are, probably, the results of perverted minds. 



10. Unfortunates who have inherited nervous and brain diseases 

 which destroy the moral sense. 



11. Persons who have forms of nervous disease which destroy the 

 will power over the voluntary motions, and do acts of impulse which 



l^ result in murders, attempts to kill and rape. 



Methods of Treating the Unbalanced. — In whatever form or 

 degree crime takes place, it is an indication of want of balance 

 produced by some kind of disability which needs a treatment ap- 

 propriate to the conditions producing it. There are two modes of 



