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A systematic examination of crime surveys statistical patterns and studies environmental, seasonal, economic, and biological factors to explain offending; it evaluates poverty, destitution, education, family conditions, and degeneration as contributors, and analyses sex and age distributions. The work argues that neither punishment alone nor prosperity or civilisation will eradicate crime, and advocates detailed, individualized study of offenders, sensible sentencing, and prisons that combine deterrence with preparation for liberty. Practical reforms discussed include moral education, maternal and public health, attention to heredity and mental disease, and evidence-based penal policy.
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