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This is a revised and amplified version of the notable book by Alexander and Staub on crime and criminology, based on the English translation of the German edition by Gregory Zilboorg. A lot of water has gone over the dam with respect to psychiatric, legal, and public interest, understanding, and perspectives about the criminal and his crimes since the book was first published. The present edition serves to provide the reader with the basic psychological understanding of crime and criminals as presented in the original version, and brings him up to date in emphasizing changes in law and in disposition and treatment of the offender. The principal and surviving author has added clinical psychoanalytic reports of two