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780 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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[U.S.] 58th Cong., 3d sess. Senate. Doc. ; no. 187 |
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U.S. 58th Cong., 3d sess. Senate. Doc. ; no. 187
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| Summary |
"This work (US Senate document No. 187, 58th Congress, 3rd Session) is a reprint of portions of the following Government publications: 1. Abnormal Man; 2. Education and Patho-social Studies; 3. Experimental Study of Children; 4. Hearing on the bill (H.R. 14798) to establish a laboratory, etc; 5. Senate Document No. 400, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session; and 6. Statistics of Crime, Suicide, and Insanity, etc. Senate Document No. 12, Fifty-eighth Congress, special session. The main purpose of the work is to study the causes of crime, pauperism, defectiveness, and other forms of abnormality, with a view to lessening or preventing them, such study to be conducted by the best methods known to science and sociology. The work is absolutely nonpolitical and fundamentally humanitarian. The abnormal classes cost governments more than one-third of their total expenses, yet they give little or nothing for scientific investigation of the causes of the evils involving this enormous expense, with a view to lessening this expense by lessening these evils. The usefulness of investigations like those proposed here is explained. One chapter covers the experimental study of children, including anthropometrical and psycho-physical measurements of Washington school children. Another chapter surveys results of a multitude of studies on child attributes and characteristics, from perceptual to cognitive to personality attributes. Another chapter first surveys studies and case examples of hypnotism and hypnotherapy, then a second section is devoted to results from recent studies of normal or abnormal child development. The next chapter discusses the interrelations between insanity and genius. The next chapter surveys the sciences of criminology and penology, often in the context of abnormal psychology. The next chapter takes a look at statistics of crime, suicide, insanity, and other forms of abnormality in the US and elsewhere. The final chapter addresses criminological study from a cultural comparison perspective." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Notes |
"This work is a reprint of portions of the following government publiications: 1 Abnormal man. 2. Education and patho-social studies. 3. Experimental study of children. 4. Hearing on the bill (H.R. 14798) to establish a laboratory, etc. 5. Senate document no. 400, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session. 6. Statistics of crime, suicide, and insanity, etc. Senate document no. 12, Fifty-eighth Congress, special session." |
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Also issued in print |
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Child psychology.
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Child psychology -- Bibliography
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Criminal anthropology.
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Criminal anthropology -- Bibliography
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People with disabilities -- Bibliography
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Forensic anthropology.
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People with disabilities.
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Psychology, Child
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Forensic Anthropology
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Disabled Persons
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Forensic anthropology
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Child psychology
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Criminal anthropology
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People with disabilities
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| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
05016132 |
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