"The Jukes" : a study in crime, pauperism, disease, and heredity : also further studies of criminals / with an introduction by Wm. M.F. Round.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dugdale, R. L. (Richard Louis), 1841-1883

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juke family.

Crime.

Criminals.

Heredity.

Criminology.

Genetics.

criminals.

criminology.

Medical Subjects:

Criminology.

Heredity.

Genetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900.

Summary:

"'The Jukes' is a pseudonym used to protect from aspersion worthy members of the family therein studied, and for convenience of treatment, to reduce the forty-two family names included in the lineage to one generic application. An author who, under such circumstances, puts forth a work requiring great precision of statement and freedom from preconceived bias, is bound to state. The second paper is the result of an examination of felon convicts on a very ample schedule, covering their physical, mental, moral and ancestral traits to test the accuracy of what purports to be the public records of crime in this State; to establish the value of expert work in making a minute census of the prison population, including the trustworthiness of convict testimony, and to lay the basis for a wider and more thorough application of the method of research pursued in the study of the 'Jukes'"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

The Jukes: a record and study of the relations of crime, pauperism, disease and heredity

Further studies of criminals: state-prison convicts.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (APA PsycNet, viewed July 20, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Dugdale, R.L. (Richard Louis), 1841-1883. Jukes" : a study in crime, pauperism, disease, and heredity.

OCLC:

654386375

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