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- W7472207 abstract "The obligation of society to the individual who is given to criminal practices, or who possesses criminal tendencies, or who, whether innocent or guilty, has been accused of crime, is no longer debatable. Indeed, in a country where government rests upon the shoulders of the governed, and is for the governed, in a very real sense, the duty which society owes to the individual is only another name for the duty society owes to itself. Each member of society faces not only the possibility of being accused of crime, but also the potentialities of becoming himself involved in criminal practices. Digressions from the most rigid codes of righteousness, lead by almost imperceptible gradations into the dark fields of criminality. Even so earnest a well-doer as the Apostle Paul said to the world the good he would he did not, and also the evil he would not, he did. It is obvious, therefore, the safeguards and helps with which we surround our neighbor (and is not he who has fallen among thieves our neighbor, indeed?), we at once surround ourselves and our sacred firesides. Verily, with what measure we mete, it shall be measured to us again. Moreover, society's fight is not with the individual, but for the individual. Man is not born a criminal. The innocent babe born in the vilest dive is not a criminal. If in later life his footsteps lead him into the mire, it is because the mire is there and the allurements of the ensnaring marsh-lights of evil are flashed about him during those impressionable years when his gaze should be directed to the mountain peaks of honor and honest toil, and when his hours of play should be spent in the sunlight of virtue and love. Probably nowhere in the whole gamut of human endeavor is the maxim that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so true as it is in our dealings with the problem of crime. Our duty is plain, our goal is clear; but the steps by which we can best discharge the duty and attain the desired end are not always obvious, nor the construction of the ma-" @default.
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- W7472207 title "Crime: Modern Methods of Prevention, Redemption and Protection" @default.
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