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Most behavioral scientists agree with University of Montreal Criminologist Ezzat Abdel Fattah, who contends that "there are people who attract the criminal as the lamb attracts the wolf." Some of these victims are masochistic or depressed; Criminologist Hans von Hentig described them as longing "lustfully" for injury...
...Criminologist James Robison, who does research for the California legislature, is among those who question the accuracy of many penal statistics. He even disputes the much-vaunted results of the California Youth Authority's Community Treatment Project, a famous experiment in which convicted juvenile delinquents were not confined' but given intensive tutoring and psychotherapy. After five years, only 28% had their paroles revoked, compared with 52% of another group that was locked up after conviction. As a result, the state expanded the project and cut back on new reformatories, saving millions. Robison, though, has proved, at least to his satisfaction...
...Harvard Medical School professors have come up with a third prescription-analysis of the biological causes of violent behavior. Violence and the Brain, a newly-published monograph, urges a scientific investigation of the role of the brain in individual violence while developing biologically-oriented social implications for both the criminologist and the politician to study...
During three autumn months of 1888, five London prostitutes were murdered and all but one horribly disemboweled by perhaps the most famous uncaught murderer of all time, Jack the Ripper. According to an article published this week in The Criminologist, a British professional journal of police science, Jack may have gone uncaught, but his identity was known to Scotland Yard: "He was the heir to power and wealth. His grandmother, who outlived him, was very much the stern Victorian matriarch . . . His father, to whose title he was the heir, was a gay cosmopolitan and did much to improve the status...
...please. Though much of the legend surrounding London's infamous sex killer of 1888 arises from the continuing mystery of his identity, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons now claims that the police knew who he was all along. In an article prepared for Criminologist magazine, say London press reports, Thomas Stowell asserts that Scotland Yard kept Jack's identity secret for a peculiarly British reason: the mad murderer came from an aristocratic family. Certain as he is of his facts, the doctor declines to reveal Lord Jack's identity. Think of the family...