Note 17 — Chapter V · THE BIO-SOCIOLOGISTS.
Henry P. (Henry Pomeroy) Horton translation
“Punishment is, however, as we have already seen, a poor criterion. Habitual criminals are often not nearly so depraved as many persons of good reputation, especially in certain districts whose moral concepts are of a very elastic kind; or as others who have, to be sure, been punished but once, but who, in all their actions, have always been crafty criminals.”17