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Ref NoDEP/LAT/1/57/70
TitlePress cutting about the responses to and causes of criminality
Date1 Dec 1869
Description Of ItemA press cutting from The Glasgow Daily Herald criticising the legal handling of crime and contemplating its origins. The author complained that criminals tried for murder and treason are treated with too much sympathy. The author expressed doubt about James Bruce Tomson’s belief that criminality was an inherited trait and advocated that environmental factors contribute to criminality. The article is printed across two columns. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
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