Society and the criminal.
By: By Norwood East, with a foreword by Alexander Maxwell.
Contributors: Great Britain. Home Office.
Publisher: H.M. Stationery Off.
Published: 1949
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Crime.
First sentence: These essays represent some of the stepping stones over which I have travelled towards a better understanding of crime and criminal.

Their purpose will be further served if they promote an attitude of mind and encourage other to investigate the many intricate and important problems involved.
Description: Assembled essays by Sir Norwood East, M.D., F.R.C.P. Lecturer on Forensic Psychiatry with Foreword by Sir Andrew Maxwell, G.C.B., K.B.E. lately Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office
Notes: At head of title: Home Office.
"References" included.
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction   Page 1; title: II. The State, The Criminal and the Psychiatrist   Page 3; title: III. Some official Contacts with Addiction      Page18; title: IV. Responsibility and Culpability         Page 33; title: V. Crime, Senescence and Senility        Page 48; title: VI. Physical Factors and Criminal Behaviour       Page 69; title: VII. Sexual Offenders    Page 91; title: VIII.  Psychopathic Personality and Crime     Page 125; title: IX. Society and the Criminal      Page 153; title: X.  Milestones of Penology   Page 167; title: XI. Crime and Punishment   Page 181; title: XII. Crime and Maturity    Page200; title: XIII. The Expert's Oath   Page 217; title: XIV. The Non-Sane Non-Insane Offender  Page 229; title: XV.  Prostitution Page 242; title: XVI. Psychiatry and Degrees of Murder   Page 254; title: XVII. The Significance of Personality in Male Murderers  Page 268; title: Medico-Legal Aspects of Alcoholism Page 281; title: XIX. "The End is Forbidden..."   Page 294; title: Index  Page 307