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defective resistance to criminal tendencies and temptations, due to that ill-balanced
Enrico Ferri • Criminal Sociology
We are sorry not to be able to disguise the fact that, merely because of the sentence “He was a convict,” almost everybody abandoned him. In less than two hours, all the good he had done was forgotten, and he was “nothing but a convict.”
Victor Hugo • Les Miserables (Les Misérables)
It is acknowledged that neither convict prisons, nor the hulks, nor any system of hard labour ever cured a criminal. These forms of chastisement only punish him and reassure society against the offences he might commit. Confinement, regulation, and excessive work have no effect but to develop with these men profound hatred, a thirst for forbidden
... See moreFyodor Dostoyevsky • The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont
