CHAPTER V.. The Criminals, Incapables, and Those in Distress.

THE CRIMINALS, INCAPABLES, AND THOSE IN DISTRESS.

Crime is often an Acquired Habit--The Innate Criminal--The Jukes Family--Intermarriage does not stamp out Criminal Tendencies--Segregation of the Criminal an Ultimate and Effectual Resort--Our Unfortunate Use of the Word “Poor”--The Unfortunate, the Aged, the Incapables, and the Vicious, are treated alike--Our Poor-law Regulations are at Fault--The Idle and Vicious are Subjects for the Criminal Law--The Poor in very Deed--Our Misguided Attitude to these--The Incapables--Segregation Ultimately Required for their Elimination--Incapables to be Treated like Chronic Hospital Patients 90–110