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George Stanley Godwin

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Description:Text extracted from opening pages of book: CAIN OR The Future of Crime BY GEORGE GODWIN LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO. LTD. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON 6-Co. 1928 We like progress, he said, but it must commend itself to the common sense of the people. If a man gets to know more than his neighbours, he should keep his knowledge, to himself till he has sounded them and seen whether they agree or are likely to agree, with him. He said it was as immoral to be too far in front of one's own age an to lag too far behind it. If a man can carry his neighbours with him, he may say what he likes; but, if not, what insult can be more gratuitous than the telling them what they do not want to know? Butler, Erewhon. 11 Nothing in criminal procedure, nothing in our penal methods, can be divorced from psychology. - Dr Hamblm-Smith. Every hive of bees, every nest of wasps or ants is a cnmelfss community. Dr Charles Mercier. MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY I. F. ROBINSON 6-CO., LTD., AT THE LIBRARY PRESS, IOWESJOPT CAIN OR THE FUTURE OF ( RIME SOCIETY AND THE OFFENDER Readers of Butler will remember that the Erewhonians regarded erime as an illness to be cured, and, fantastic as that view of the problem may seem, it is, in a word, the ultimate solution of it. What follows is a plea for the recogni tion of this fact, after which the problem then f falls naturally into three parts: the physical cure, the mental cure, and the disposal of the irreclaimable human material. No community of individuals could exist unless it adopted certain rules of conduct, and every law made to en force such rules has always necessarily involved the curtailment of the liberty of the individual in the interests of them CAIN community. The problem of crime is to bring the individual into harmony with the code of the community. In other words, to inculcate the control of the self-regarding instincts and the development of the other-regarding in stincts. Ever since primitive man first made for himself rough-and-ready rules of conduct, Society has been faced with the problem of those of its members who refused to accept and abide by the code laid down by the will of the majority. The criminal was he who deliberately flouted tribal laws. The first murderer was cast forth from the fold' to be come a vagabond and an exile in the earth ', not because he had offended against a moral law by doing murder, but because by killing he had weakened the fighting and foodhunting strength of the tribe arid damaged the family unit. *. In a primitive community the capacity for killing was undoubtedly a virtue, the virtue of the warrior, among the highest in a community hedged about by aggressive neighbours. So, too, with the wife-stealer, and the thief of other chattels: he was proceeded against simply because his activities 6] THE FUTURE OF CRIME were a common menace. The moral distinction between murder and theft was obscure, and the essential moral difference in the nature of the two anti-social acts was probably not per ceived. Revenge is an old, a primeval in stinct: it came into action. The ethics of the tribe were not outraged, since it is improbable that it possessed much moral sense. It did not so much punish the murderer or thief in the spirit of superiority of the modern mouthpiece of Society, delivering the judicial homily to the occupant of the dock, , as it set about' getting even' with him. Sometimesthis revenge took the form of swift death; sometimes of death after due torture; at others of exile; and, again, of mutilation. It develop ed later, being unorganized, into the forn. of the vendetta, in which the blood relatives of the slain declared a feud against the family of the assassin. In this form revenge has persisted down to modern times in Latin countries, in the form of the Corsican vendetta, and, in the United States, in the blood feud. Indiscriminate revenge against the 7] CAIN wrongdoer by the community or family, however, was inconvenieWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cain: The Future of Crime. To get started finding Cain: The Future of Crime, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Text extracted from opening pages of book: CAIN OR The Future of Crime BY GEORGE GODWIN LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO. LTD. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON 6-Co. 1928 We like progress, he said, but it must commend itself to the common sense of the people. If a man gets to know more than his neighbours, he should keep his knowledge, to himself till he has sounded them and seen whether they agree or are likely to agree, with him. He said it was as immoral to be too far in front of one's own age an to lag too far behind it. If a man can carry his neighbours with him, he may say what he likes; but, if not, what insult can be more gratuitous than the telling them what they do not want to know? Butler, Erewhon. 11 Nothing in criminal procedure, nothing in our penal methods, can be divorced from psychology. - Dr Hamblm-Smith. Every hive of bees, every nest of wasps or ants is a cnmelfss community. Dr Charles Mercier. MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY I. F. ROBINSON 6-CO., LTD., AT THE LIBRARY PRESS, IOWESJOPT CAIN OR THE FUTURE OF ( RIME SOCIETY AND THE OFFENDER Readers of Butler will remember that the Erewhonians regarded erime as an illness to be cured, and, fantastic as that view of the problem may seem, it is, in a word, the ultimate solution of it. What follows is a plea for the recogni tion of this fact, after which the problem then f falls naturally into three parts: the physical cure, the mental cure, and the disposal of the irreclaimable human material. No community of individuals could exist unless it adopted certain rules of conduct, and every law made to en force such rules has always necessarily involved the curtailment of the liberty of the individual in the interests of them CAIN community. The problem of crime is to bring the individual into harmony with the code of the community. In other words, to inculcate the control of the self-regarding instincts and the development of the other-regarding in stincts. Ever since primitive man first made for himself rough-and-ready rules of conduct, Society has been faced with the problem of those of its members who refused to accept and abide by the code laid down by the will of the majority. The criminal was he who deliberately flouted tribal laws. The first murderer was cast forth from the fold' to be come a vagabond and an exile in the earth ', not because he had offended against a moral law by doing murder, but because by killing he had weakened the fighting and foodhunting strength of the tribe arid damaged the family unit. *. In a primitive community the capacity for killing was undoubtedly a virtue, the virtue of the warrior, among the highest in a community hedged about by aggressive neighbours. So, too, with the wife-stealer, and the thief of other chattels: he was proceeded against simply because his activities 6] THE FUTURE OF CRIME were a common menace. The moral distinction between murder and theft was obscure, and the essential moral difference in the nature of the two anti-social acts was probably not per ceived. Revenge is an old, a primeval in stinct: it came into action. The ethics of the tribe were not outraged, since it is improbable that it possessed much moral sense. It did not so much punish the murderer or thief in the spirit of superiority of the modern mouthpiece of Society, delivering the judicial homily to the occupant of the dock, , as it set about' getting even' with him. Sometimesthis revenge took the form of swift death; sometimes of death after due torture; at others of exile; and, again, of mutilation. It develop ed later, being unorganized, into the forn. of the vendetta, in which the blood relatives of the slain declared a feud against the family of the assassin. In this form revenge has persisted down to modern times in Latin countries, in the form of the Corsican vendetta, and, in the United States, in the blood feud. Indiscriminate revenge against the 7] CAIN wrongdoer by the community or family, however, was inconvenieWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cain: The Future of Crime. To get started finding Cain: The Future of Crime, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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