““Society's attitude toward crime and criminals is reflected by the laws on its statue books. As long as it views these problems through the prisons and fixed sentences that permit little if any discretion in the releasing or discharging delinquents and prisoners, there will be no permanent solution. Time was when a person with smallpox was lashed through the public streets as "possessed" of evil; when the disordered mind was tortured to free it from the devil. We have passed also through the periods of theoretical, hereditary crime; of criminality due to physical deformities, of limitation of will, of freedom of will, of glandular defects, and the many other pet notions of theorists and investigators.””
