Eugenics Record Office. BULLETIN No. 10A - DNA Patent Database ...

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the man is criminal during periods of sobriety or only during periods of intoxi-
cation. Among women drunkards also distinction should be made with regard
to the morality of the case during periods of sobriety and intoxication. If a man
or woman is criminal or immoral only when intemperate, the vice may be but a
phase of the disease of inebriety, and curable with the cure of the original malady.
Obviously, the individual who inherits a craving for alcohol or
other poisonous stimulants and inherits at the same time a lack of
moral stamina enabling him to resist the temptation is eugenically as
well as socially dangerous to the State. Such individuals are cacogenic
and must therefore be prevented from contributing their traits to the
new generation.
4. THE CRIMINALISTIC CLASS
From a eugenical point of view, there are two sorts of persons
legally condemned as criminals. First, individuals who commit techni-
cal civil offenses, but whose instincts are social. Second, individuals
who commit crimes against society on account of a lack of social moral-
ity. The second class of individuals are properly called criminalistic.
If on them neither punishment nor moral precept has much effect, they
are properly, then, classed as moral imbeciles and, as such, constitute a
biological variety of the human stock. They are the individuals to be
considered in this study, which seeks to cut off the supply of individ-
uals innately anti-social. The following classification is based upon
the nature of the crime rather than the nature of the individual. Yet
there is a closer relationship between the two than would appear at
the first inspection, for it appears to require a definite innate type of
personality-complex to commit, in spite of punishment and efforts
at reformation, the same offense naturally and continually and ofttimes
almost irresistibly.
1. Crimes Against Chastity.
a. Adultery.
b. Fornication.
c. Bigamy and polygamy.
d. Incest.
e. Prostitution.
f. Seduction.
g. Pandering.
h. Sodomy.
i. Beastility.
2. Crimes Against Persons.
a. Slander.
b. Assault.
c. Extortion.
d. Robbery.
e. Rape.
f. Homicide.
g. Suicide.