Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich Jew came unto judgment, last week at Budapest. Soon he stood, plucked, gasping and stunned, under sentence to pay a fine equivalent to $500,000 and to serve seven years imprisonment at hard labor. What crime could fit so monstrous a punishment...
BROADWAY-The low down on the liquor industry, soft shoe dancing, cold hearted crime (TIME, Sept...
...concluding he stressed the need of science in determining crime and punishment, and urged universal eduction as a means to this...
Associate Professor E. A. Booton of the department of Anthropology continued the discussion, although "without the inspiration of the Boy Scouts, rather, undergraduates." He pointed out the methods of identification in crime which belong essentially to the field of Anthropology. "Our, hope is that we may identify the criminal before, as well as after the act," he said, "so that we may recognize the presence of dementia praicox before and not after little Willie has put the baby in the oven." He mentioned the possibilities of the relation between race and crime citing statistics of the negro, and foreign races...
...Campbell, professor of Psychiatry and director of the Massachusetts Psychopathic Hospital, discussed crime from the viewpoint of medical psychology. According to Dr. Campbell the field of the medical man is limited to understanding such phenomena and abnormalities of life as are not infrequent among criminals, studying behavior and mental conditions preceding crime, as much as it is possible for medical science to determine should be the share of the physchiatrist." Dr. Campbell asserted...