Excerpt from The New York State Reformatory in Elmira During the last fifteen years the study of the criminal has been carried on with great activity in many of the older countries of Europe. The chief impetus of this new scientific movement was given by Lom broso, whose great work, l'uomo Delinquente, was published at Turin in 1876; and it is above all in Italy - although to a large extent in France and Germany also - that criminal anthmpology, as it is nsually called, has been most fruitfully pursued. The results obtained are still at variance in many respects, but it is now generally agreed that a considerable proportion of criminals are not merely moral criminals, but physical, intellectual and emotional criminals; that they are largely persons who, partly by defects of birth, partly by defects of nature, are abnormal, and who think, feel and act differently from other people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.