New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-02-11
Liferury .Nes0S and Criticism
The Modern Criminal Science
Series.

Oci iCSs
MODERN THEORIES OF CRiMIN MIN "a
BY c. Bernaldo de Quiros IransiaSeu
from the second Spanish edltlot oy IL, ~;
Alphonso de Salvio, of Northwestern
University With an American preface
by the author and an intr0ducu3n py
W w smithers sb Esq ocm or iye'P law
Bureau of the American Bar Associa-
ton Svo. PIP. xvii. 249. Boston, Little
Brown & Co.
CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; BY Hans
Gross. Translated from the fourth Ger
man edition by Or. Horace NJ. kallen,
of Harvard University. With an Amerl-
can preface by the author and an m
University Of Wisconsin. Svo. PIP Xxx,
5l4 Boston Little Brown & Co.
This series of translations is, one Of
the first results of the organization. al
Chicago in June 1909. of the American
Institute OF Law and Crimnology. 1t
is the purpose of that organization.
whose membership consists of eminent
American jurists. psychologists, sociolo-
gists economists and physicians inter-
ested in medico-legal questions, to fur
ther the scientific study of crime, crimi-
nal law and procedure, to formulate and
promote measures for solving the prob
lens connected Herewith. and to co-ordi-
nate the efforts of individuals and or
CARNATIONS interested in the admins
tration of certain and speedy justice"
To promote the realization of the ends
IN view the Institute has authorized the
publication Of the series whose first two
volumes now lie before u.s. They are to
he followed by six more. to embrace all
That has been written in Europe dur
ing the last half century on criminal SCI
ence which is Of enduring value. The
foreign authorities TO be represented in
the completed undertaking are besides
the two authors at the head of this arti-
Gle. Cesare Lombroso C'Crime. Its Causes
end Remedies'). Raymond Satellites
CIhe NATURALIZATION OF Punshment'o.
'Enrico Ferri C'Criminal Sociology. Ga
briel Tarde ("Penal Philosophy. w. A
sBonger C'Criminality and Economic Con-
'ditions'). Raffaelle Garofalo C'Criminol-
ogy') and Gustav Aschaffenburg C'Crime
and Its Repository.
In its general introduction to the series
the Institutes committee on translation
draws a striking comparison between the
progress of medicine and that of crmi-
nal science, which "for the community
at large is larger thing than criminal
Jaw" Two hundred years ago, it is
pointed out, medical practitioners pro-
ceeded upon two general assumptions.
one as TO the cause of disease, the other
8s 10 Its treatment. AS to the cause
Ndisease was sent by the inscrutable will
lcf God. AS TO the treatment, there were
Fbelieved TO be few remedial agencies
OF universal efficacy, calomel and blood
letting being probably the most impor-
tant of these. The strength of the dose
OF the one might be graduated, the
quantity of blood tapped might vary.
hut either or both treatments were APP
piled Unfortunately TO all varieties Of
ailment. To-day medicine knows better.
AS to the causes of disease, they are
facts of nature; as to their treatment
we now know that there are specific
remedies for specific ailments:
The NATURALIZATION Of disease in cause
and treatment is the dominant truth of
modern medical science. The same truth is
now known about crime. but the under
SldnnlDE ana lUe dpDHCdllOI VI IL are oAly
Just opening upon us The old and sun
dominant thought is, as to cause, That a
crime r. caused by the lnscrutable moral
free will of the human being, doing or not
doing the crime just as II pleases; aDso-
1utely free in advance, and therefore IN II
self the absolute cause OF crime. AS 10
treatment. there still are just two tradl-
tional measures used in varying doses Tor
all kinds OF crime and all kinds OF per-
sonS-jail. or fine, for death Is now en-
ployed in rare cases only. But modern sci
ence. here as in medicine, recognizes thdt
crime also dixie disease) has natural causes
II need not be asserted Tor one moiheht
that crime is a disease, but IL does have
natural Causes-that Is, circumstances mat
produce il in given case. Ana as 10 treat
ment. modern science recognizes mat Peiial
or remedial treatment cannot possibly DE
yndiscrimil ate and machine-1ke. but must
he adapted to the causes, and TO the man
as affected by those causes Common sense
md logic alike require inevitably that the
moment we predicate a specific cause for
an undesirable effect the remedial treat
onent must be speclncally addpteu 10 that
cause Thus the great truth OF the present
and the future for criminal science is the
Standardization Of penal treatment-tor
that man, and for the cause OF that man
crime
This truth has been made sufficiently
familiar to the intelligent American lay
man by practical criminologists. sociol-
ogists economists and philanthroplsts'
the published conclusions Of settlement
workers deserving special mention. Still,
ahe Institute. including many eminent
members of bench and bar, expresses the
oujnion that the law alone has abstained
from doing it's part. THE legal profess
sion has remained either ignorant of the
sntire subject" says the introduction.
cor Indifferent TO the entire scientific
movement" II is, then, for the beneht
If that profession that the series is to
be published first of all, but the layman
will find in it much to interest him, If
these first two volumes may be taken as
examples Of the whole. For every one
tf us is nowadays somewhat Of a sociol-
Sejet. psychologist and evolutionist.
No better work could possibly have
been found TO open the series than
Senior de Quiros's mastery survey of
the whole body Of European literature
on criminal science published during the
last half century. The amount of read
ing digested, co-ordinated and contrasted,
as in the case of the italian and the
German criminologists, is stupendous
Himself an original investigator of high
est standing. the author of several
standard works on crime in Spain, Senior
de Quiros has, moreover a gift Of pre-
senting his subject-matter in clear and
,acdahIe form a merit felicitouSlV re-