Excerpt from Experimental Sociology: Descriptive and Analytical This volume presents a study of methods of investigation of delinquents and their treatment, together with such suggestions for the prevention of criminality as has resulted from it. It is not a complete study and is published at the present time in the hope that it may secure the interest and cooperation of the general public and of specialists. It is the first of a series of studies involving laboratory methods. Since it is an appeal to the sympathetic interest and cooperation of the public, it is not prepared as a text-book and the author has put the results into the simplest form all tables and technicalities being omitted whenever possible. The author realizes that the proposed methods are new, that they are defective, and that they will encounter much opposition. The material is the result of first-hand investigation and as it was undertaken in the midst of much prejudice and many difficulties and with no precedents for a guide, its trustworthiness should be considered in relation to these. The results are in no sense of the word conclusive for they are but the beginning and indicate something of the field and tend to show what may be anticipated from the continued research. Suggestions are made not in a critical spirit but to contribute the best thought which the author has to offer. So far as possible commendation has been given to the South for its truly great progress in the last decade and an effort has been made to present its system in relation to the conditions which govern it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.