Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

“This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct.”

Among lawyers, none are unilaterally venerated like Clarence Darrow. The Ohio attorney rose to international fame as the defense attorney in two Trials of the Century; both the Leopold and Loeb case and the Scopes Monkey Trial. In this quality reissue of Crime: Its Cause and Treatment, Darrow analyzes and interprets the essence and origins of both crime and the mind of the criminal, both male and female.. He discusses events in the background of criminals that lead them to crime, as well as the natural phenomena and psychological faults that can cause antisocial behavior. In this seminal work of criminology, Darrow accesses crime in a similar manner in which doctors treat disease by identifying its symptoms and causes.