The criminal / by Havelock Ellis.

  • Havelock Ellis
Date:
1895
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Credit: The criminal / by Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    five centimes, and the shopnnan is busy with pur- chasers of more expensive objects. Suddenly the woman nervously yields to a swift temptation ; she does not wish to wait longer, but instead of replacmg the purse on the counter she slips it into her pocke and turns on her heels without paying. From that moment,' said the inspector. ^ she is lost; she will come back to steal, but she will steal intentionally and deliberately.'^ _ , The world and the criminal's friends are startled some day by a great crime, but that crime is linked on to a chain of slight, occasional, sporadic vices and offences. Sometimes we can trace out these hnks. Barr6 and Lebiez were two young French criminals who attracted attention some years ago. They were both of good family, both very intelligent the former about to enter on a commercial life, the atter on tl.e eve of becoming a doctor of medicine. At this point they murdered an old woman to rob her, and cut up the body to dispose of it. The crime was deliberate Ind carefully prepared; there was nothing romantic or obviously morbid about it, and a few days after tL cLe Lebiez delivered an able and eloquent ecturc on Darwinism and the Church. In each of hese young men there were, M. Joly observes, nine stages in the path of crime. Let us first note those of H?s employer is obliged to dismiss him on account of misconduct with - writes untruthful letters to his_ ^^-f' f ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ habits of work which do not exist. 3- ^f. an extravagant taste for speculation on the S ock Exctrge. ^ So far his course, tl-gh e^^^^^^^^^ was one that has often enough been traversed by » H. Joly, Le Crime, 1888, p. 269.
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