The Individual Delinquent: A Text-Book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All Concerned in Understanding Offenders (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Individual Delinquent: A Text-Book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All Concerned in Understanding Offenders<br><br>The handling of a delinquent in any way is an important affair for society. Our findings show how vital it is that the handling should be entrusted to intelligent people capable of understanding a human individual and charged with a feeling of grave public duty. We see every need of insisting on this matter of understanding all along the line. It begins with parents for they should comprehend at least the main phenomena of child life and should guard the mental and moral sources of weal and woe. Ultimately as many a judge has insisted the problem of crime must hark back to parental guardianship. Unfortunately however cases are seen too late to educate pa rents while of course many parents by reason of innate defect or other circumstances have never been educable in this matter.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.