Stone Walls and Men (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Stone Walls and Men Writing a book like the one you have in your hands is a polite form of plagiarism or, better, a kind of mental kleptomania. Into it goes a distillation of ideas and facts from every conceivable source, from conversation and reading, and from study and observation. To assign credits for ideas, opinions, or expressions would be alien to the purpose of this volume, which is to bring alive and make challenging one of the most pressing aspects of our common life. What I have to say in this book is the result of some years of observation and experience among criminals and with crime. For more than six years I have lived with a vivid awareness that our current techniques for handling the problem of crime are pitifully inadequate, that we have been bogged down by misconceptions about crime and criminals, that these inadequacies of technique and these misconceptions are endlessly perpetuated through the usual textbooks and other vehicles of expression. The trouble has been, I think, that writers about crime have approached it from an academic and theoretical standpoint and have rarely, if ever, plunged into the deeps of the offender's very being with him. This I have done, many times. The orientation throughout this volume is both practical and analytical. While most of it is unoriginal - the plagiarism and kleptomania mentioned before - some of it is novel, at least in the sense that it has not before appeared in a work on crime. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.