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Excerpt from The Principles of Anthropology, and Sociology in Their, Relations to Criminal Procedure
These two sciences, criminal anthropology and sociology, do not require that punishment Shall be cruel and inhuman. But the tendency in applying the principle that punishment Shall be humane has been to work solely for the reduction Of punish ment, whereas the principle Of social defense which, as we shall see, grows out of these sciences requires that penalties Shall be adapted to the criminals and the crimes they have committed. This means that penalties must sometimes be increased instead Of reduced in severity. In like manner these sciences do not require that the treatment Of the criminal shall be independent of the law. But they would replace the rigid regulation of the law by more ?exible and scientific standards, which will permit of the individualization Of punishment which we shall discuss further on.
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