Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-22
CRIMINALS ARE MERELY STUPID

We have been an wrong about crimnas it seems wrong in fearing them wrong handling them Thsy are not strong or brilliant any if they they would not be criminals There Rallies" il real life no criminals" of any type that munity of normal men and women need fear.
 Most criminals" says Dr. Woods Hutchinson after careful study of prisoners their crires not bad but are stupid There is no such thing as a 'bom erin nal" The unfortunates develop criminality under UT favorable conditions simply because they too dul vited to honest living to recognize that hor esty and deeency are best And the why ara so prone to believe criminals brilliant persons fig ha we put stupid upon police forces and judges benches to cope with them"
 Dr. Hutchinson presents facts and figures to bac his statements. Ths crmina.s weddings in ever. sense. subnormal in body well In mind and moral The most convincing proof yet submitted comes fror the experimental work of prison doctors in Kansas Michigan pentantiaries.
 n Che Kansas prison it found that of 900 prsoI CTS, above the age of 2a only per cent were norns human beings. The 95 per cent were not insane The simply were men and women with the minds Of htu children Out of i3O adults prisoners only F rasssd the mental tests for children fifteen years ol Threefourths of all fell baow twelyeyearolds in mer taliy.
 Embezzloment and forgery are generally consldere intelligent crimes" yet out the five embezsrs in tn prison three had only reached the mnai of twelve and the other two were mentally fifteen years old Che eleven mature forgers three were mentally age nine two aged eleven aged twelve and two dfteeI and only three showed the intelligence of grown mel
 Among the larceny prisoners only of four had mans brain only seven had passed tha mental az of twelve.
 Of the five murderers examined passed the fl teen-yearold tests two the twelveyear tests and on the eghtyear tests and one proved to be mental sey enyear-od. And so it ran, through all the gamut O crime There was no daring, intelligent selfconsciou defiance of society; there only pitfu dulness
 What is the answer society should make to thes' ncontr6vcrtible facts which have been corroborate, wherever similar tests have been made?
 We'll the warden of the Michigan penitendary want to abolish cells and build for his prisoners ordinary dor mitaries, with bedrooms bathrooms for groups O eight prisoners each It's no use punshing prisoners, says any more than it woul be to put naughty litu children in cells to reform them The thing to do is t help these adult children grow up physically and mer tally. We have hospitals for the of physical ai ments and asyIums for mental ailments; why be sc fl rational in caring moral deficiencies which in near every case have a physical basis? Make the prsone healthy if possible Give him fairly normal life. TheI if there is any development possible he will rise to h treatment
 So much for the prisons. Beyond that Dr Hutchinso suggests roundup of all criminals actual poeatia who are at large In New York City he says. there ar probably fewer criminals than policemen The polio know the 4gunmen". they round them up after sens tiona murders Why not corral Chem before murder are committed?
 Any why let criminals develop at an? The communi can pick out in infancy childhood those of antsoaI tendency "The idiot can be detected at the age Of tT the imbecie at five to seven, the fesbeminded or mo on at seven to twelve The moron c'aas furnishea per cent of our fallen and 75 cent of our ma criminals AN
 By studying our population he says, VIC could 8 control in advance the big majority of our orimna paupers immoral women and nebriates Their tendenci could be oounteracted and tue hopeless ones could kep in proper institutions where uley would earn h' own livelihood poweress to hurt society by hostile a' or by eaying oHsprng to perpetuate their own defec
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