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1 Walter N. Thayer, Jr., The Defective Delinquent: His Care and Training 1 (1924)

handle is hein.newyork/dvdthcrt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE DEFECTIVE DELINQUENT His Care and Training BY WALTER N. THAYER, JR., M. D., SUPERINTENDENT, INSTITUTION FOR DEFECTIVE DELINQUENTS, NAPANOCH, N. Y. (Read before Annual State Conference of Charities and Cor- rections at Bridgeport, Conn., May 6, 1924.) My first impression of the criminal was this: Upon the sur- face, he was not different from many individuals whom I had met outside of prison walls, and years of observation and prison experi- ence have not destroyed this impression. Civil life contains indi- viduals of every temperament and mentality; the greater number of whom are able to function and earn a livelihood without coming into conflict with the law. When considered from the standpoint of intelligence level and emotional stability, the prison population is not radically different in type from the civil population, but the percentages of those having a subnormal intelligence and those suffering from psychopathic personality and instability, are rela- tively much larger. Further acquaintance and greater familiarity with the convict led to speculation as to why many returned to their criminal ways after having been discharged into civil life. ' About this time we began to hear of the so-called hereditary criminal, and Lombroso was responsible for a work on criminal types and stigmata. I well remember when I was acting as hospital intern at Dannemora, it was not unusual to endeavor to distinguish between the man who had committed crime against property and the one who had committed a crime against the person, by the contour of the head. And, as we had but two types to classify, we were right, of course, fifty percent of the time. In later years, we have come to the opinion that crime is a matter of habit formation and not inherent. We believe that instead of identifying the criminal by his physical characteristics, Lombroso, in most instances, identified the defective who had become criminal through faulty

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