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mality in their reactions to social claims and social penalties. This brings 

 us back to the crux of the whole situation. Means must be provided by 

 which a knowledge of the individual case may be made available, before 

 the decision is taken as to how any offender is to be treated. The tempera- 

 mentally defective individual may be born, the habitual criminal is largely 

 made. It ought at least to be possible to prevent the making of criminals. 

 Again the glaring defect of our penal system stands revealed. No pro- 

 vision whatever is made for the diagnosis of incipient criminality. It is 

 not merely a case of locking the door after the horse is stolen ; it is a 

 case of providing neither lock nor door. 



