K^lSrSA-S CITY 
Review of Science and Industry, 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 
SCIENCE, MECHANIC ARTS AND LITERATURE. 
VOL. VIL JUNE, 1883. NO. 2. 
SOCIOLOGY. 
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS : HOW SHALL WE TREAT THEM. 
GEORGE HALLEV, M. D. 
The great social problem that is now agitating every form of governmental 
organization, is How shall crime be prevented ? It is a wail of agonized anguish 
that began with the history of the race, and increasing in intensity and pathos 
now ascends to heaven from every kindred, and tribe, and nation, and tongue, 
as well from the high-bred and cultured Anglo-Saxon, as from the most degraded 
tribe found on the "dark continent." Almost the opening chapter of the 
history of the race, is the recital of the most terrible of crimes, — murder ! 
It is the spectre that stalks us at the entrance of this field of explorations. 
It is a constant companion at every step of our progress, and at the present time 
is the great unsolved problem in sociology, as well as the rock on which all organ- 
ized government is liable at any moment to split. The cry of the world now is 
*' A government for the people and by the people ! " But a large mass of those 
people are criminals who know, feel, fear, and care for no restraint but force — 
cruel, vindictive, physical force. How shall they then who are steeped to the 
lips in crime, knowing nothing of morality, feeHng no moral restraint or obliga- 
tion, and, of course, ignorant of all law but that of force, control themselves or 
frame laws to control others (that criminal element) in that body politic ? It is 
like asking the water of the river to carry back again to the top of the mountain 
tops, the silt that it has just carried down into the valley, or for the dark and 
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