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In this paper Potts draws a comparison between the different methods of dealing with criminals in various countries. In it he enters a plea for psychological investigation of the criminal and treatment in appropriate cases.
The psychopathological group (he uses this term in contradistinction to the mentally defective and insane) is the class amenable to treatment. He quotes one or two cases of delinquents to show how their tendencies were brought about by maladjustment in the family life at home.