Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
by Clarence Darrow
Publisher: Project Gutenberg 2004
ISBN/ASIN: B003980CGC
Description:
This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct.
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