Criminal Law
that branch of law which deals with crimes and their punishment and is in use in one shape or another wherever human society exists.
The earliest form of penal law seems to eases at Pavia and director of a lunatic asylum at Pesaro, was appointed Professor of Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry at Turin. His great work is "The Delinquent Man" (1875), in which his theory of criminology is expounded.
The criminologist holds that the con- CRIPPLE CREEK genital habitual criminal is marked by conspicuous physical and mental defects.
Arrested cranial development and deformity, heavy jaws, ugly features, and many other minor abnormal physical characters, are associated with moral inintelligence, vanity, and irregular emotional peculiarities verging occasional criminal who yields to severe or special temptations is treated as tions is treated as belonging to a wholly The acceptance these these anthropological views would natusomewhat sweeping changes in the treatment of criminals, with a view to their reclamation somewhat on the lines of the treatment in use at SYSTEM. ce of