Criminal Sociology
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 e
... See moreFyodor Dostoyevsky • The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont
He had been led to the murder through his shallow and cowardly nature, exasperated moreover by privation and failure.