DEDICATED TO MANY KIND FRIENDS.

A PLEA FOR THE CRIMINAL.

BEING A REPLY TO DR. CHAPPLE'S WORK: "THE FERTILITY OF THE UNFIT,"

AND

AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN THE LEADING PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINOLOGICAL & REFORMATORY SCIENCE.

By

THE REV. J. L. A. KAYLL,

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION.

INVERCARGILL! W. Smith, Commercial Printer, Temple Chambers, Esk Street. MCMV.

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME.

Brockway, Z. R. Elmira. Corre, Dr A. Paris. Drill, Dimitri. Moscow. Du Cane, Sir E. England. Dugdale, R. L. America. Ellis, Havelock England. Ferri, Prof. E. Rome. Garofalo, (Baron) Prof. Naples. Kidd, Benjamin England. Von. Krafft-Ebing, Prof. Vienna. Lacassagne, Prof. Lyons. MacDonald, Dr. A. Washington, U.S.A. Mercier, Chas. M. B. England. Morrison, Rev. W. D. England. Manouvrier, Dr. Paris. Moleschott, Prof. Rome. Orano, Giuseppe Rome. Ribot, Th. France. Rylands, L. Gordon England. Salomon, Otto Naeaes. (Sweden.) Scott, Jos. Elmira. Spitska, Dr. E. C. New York. Tallack, Wm. England.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

CHAPTER I. Introductory 9

CHAPTER II. The Criminal 14

CHAPTER III. The Causes of Crime 28

CHAPTER IV. The Methods and Philosophy of Punishment 61

CHAPTER V. Elimination--Dr. Chapple's Proposal 87

CHAPTER VI. The Obligations of Society Towards the Weak 120

CHAPTER VII. The New Penology 133

CHAPTER VIII. The Prevention of Crime 138

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Plea for the Criminal by Kayll
• 2: Suffering which is of an entirely penal nature
• 3: Dr Chapple is astounded that the existence
• 4: Insane persons who commit criminal acts
• 5: Immoral and excitable life become insane
• 6: Called also the born criminal Lombroso
• 7: The type is indeed an ENSEMBLE of traits
• 8: The presence of a median occipital fossa
• 9: Thus subordinating the animal nature
• 10: Whatever the influence of heredity may be
• 11: The children's conduct is immoral
• 12: The alcoholic may become the dipsomaniac
• 13: In the sensualist the excitement precedes the vision
• 14: He spoke of suicide to his friends
• 15: Moleschott speaks are not of an hereditary nature
• 16: Manouvrier declares that it must then be universal
• 17: Manouvrier insists that there must be environment
• 18: By environment we understand bad homes
• 19: And this is found readily at hand in alcohol
• 20: Criminals often feign insanity
• 21: Next the moral sensibilities are hardened
• 22: Exactly as the vaults are closed in Santiago Cemetery
• 23: Henceforth the prison is their home
• 24: Boiled beef every day except Sunday
• 25: And sentence ten to twenty years
• 26: The flogging had demoralised them
• 27: Punishment by death is becoming more and more unpopular
• 28: That our criminal population is on the increase
• 29: Punishment the principle and reformation the incident
• 30: Or basis of all judicial punishment
• 31: Criminals have become more numerous
• 32: The exterminators still proclaim their policy
• 33: Has Dr Chapple considered this fact
• 34: Pellman has studied the case at second hand and
• 35: And totally disinclined towards matrimony
• 36: Where criminals have sprung from a defective ancestry
• 37: Of the three grandsons of Ada Jukes
• 38: Of the children were criminals
• 39: Eminent criminologists as they may be
• 40: Of criminal children descended from criminal ancestry
• 41: Society has no enemy in Nature
• 42: No indications of tubo ligature having been performed
• 43: The parents were also epileptics
• 44: The numbers of the pauper may increase
• 45: Dr Chapple has done nothing more than shelve it
• 46: They have fallen and been trampled on
• 47: Asylums and other charitable institutions
• 48: The power of disease is being overcome
• 49: The new penology repudiates all such systems
• 50: If our punishments were first of all made REFORMATORY
• 51: Parental influence is either wanting
• 52: By the child and sometimes by the parent
• 53: Although there are many different kinds of Sloyd
• 54: Comparative table of different kinds of sloyd
• 55: The objects of Sloyd are a to instil a taste for
• 56: F To cultivate habits of attention
• 57: From Theory of Sloyd SALOMON
• 58: And in the midst of so much rationalistic teaching
• 59: Upon the authority of the probation officer
• 60: The stigma of the prison is avoided
• 61: Many of them have been in juvenile reformatories
• 62: Upon admission at the reformatory
• 63: Would be an ABSOLUTELY INDETERMINATE ONE
• 64: A further advantage that the indeterminate sentence has
• 65: Attendance is therefore compulsory
• 66: For twelve years Lecturer at the Reformatory
• 67: Half of whose morning time is spent in the gymnasium
• 68: In the performance of athletics
• 69: Manual training was introduced into the Reformatory in 1895
• 70: Athletics and mental arithmetic
• 71: The apprentice having the desire to learn a trade
• 72: Was more deterrent than was generally supposed
• 73: Society has the criminals that it deserves