exist beings, born criminals, who are
organised for evil, who reproduce the instincts common to the wildest
savages and even those of ferocious carnivora, and are destined by
nature to injure others, our resentment becomes softened; but
notwithstanding our sense of pity, we feel justified in demanding their
extermination when they prove to be dangerous and absolutely
irredeemable.

PENALTIES PROPOSED BY THE MODERN SCHOOL

The following tables, compiled by Senator Garofalo, a celebrated jurist
of the Modern School and inserted in _Criminal Man_, vol. iii, show the
distribution of penalties systematically arranged.

I. Born Criminals who are utterly devoid of the sentiment of pity.

_Offender_ _Crime_ _Penalty_

Murderers exhibiting Murder for lucre or Prison, penal colony,
moral insensibility some other egotistical criminal insane
and instinctive object asylum, or
cruelty, capital punishment
convicted of Murder without if recidivists.
provocation on the
part of the victim

Murder with ferocious
execution

II. Violent and Impulsive Criminals, Criminaloids, and those guilty
through insufficiency of pity, of decency, of inhibitory power, and
through prejudiced notions of honor.

_Offender_ _Crime_ _Penalty_

Adults convicted of Cruelty, assault Criminal insane
and battery, rape, asylum for epileptics,
kidnapping or

Indefinite seclusion
for a period equal
to one of the natural
divisions of a man's
life, with period of
supervision.

Minors convicted of Murder, cruelty Special reformatories,
and other offences criminal insane
against the person asylum if there are
without provocation congenital tenden