Download or read book The Medico-Legal Journal, 1883, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Medico-Legal Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Medico-Legal Journal, 1883, Vol. 1 The habitual criminal has in all civilized times attracted to himself considerable amount of disrespectful attention, principally from those who were engaged in the preparation and administration of the law; but of late years the study of this variety of human fraility has been taken up by medical men, alienists, and anthropologists who have used in their inquiries the scientific methods with which they were already accustomed. If criminal anthropology be not a new branch of knowledge, at least it is characterized by a new way of presenting knowledge that is every year attracting more and more attention. There are already two separate reviews entirely devoted to this subject, one in Italian, and the other in French, besides numerous papers appear in periodicals dedicated to insanity or general medicine, and sketches of the requisite shallowness have even appeared in popular magazines. The number of books on this subject which have appeared in different European languages would fill a large book-case. The professors of the new science have held several collective scientific conferences, and have attracted the notice of the general public by the boldness of their claims and the open contempt with which they treat the-time hallowed ways of keeping under malefactors. 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.