Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1881 — Habitual Criminals. [ARTICLE]

Habitual Criminals.

A distinguished Austrian physician has published a book in which he attempts to prove that habitual criminals are such because they cannot help it. He has examined the brains of a number pf persistent scoundrels, and has inva-

riably found that the superior frontal convolution is not continuous, but is divided into four sub-convolutions analogous to the parts found in predatory carnivorous animals, and he thinks that the mental characteristics of criminals are due to this peculiar formation of the brain.