HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY LOUIS NEWTON ROBINSON NOTE THOUGH a flood of articles on special phases of the general problem of criminology have recently appeared in the United States in response to the demand on the part of the public for greater knowledge concerning this subject, the statistical side of the question has been, for one reason or another, very inadequately treated. In the hope of partly filling this gap in our knowledge, I began not long ago a statistical study of the increase in criminality in the United States. As the work progressed, I soon found that I could never hope to use the statistics intelligently without a thorough understanding of their history and organization. Since no complete study along this line had ever been made, I set to work on this new problem, relinquishing for the time being my original plan. The results of my labor are embodied in this book, which I hope will prove useful to all those who may feel inclined to subject to a statistical test some of the theories of the criminologists. I wish to make acknowledgment here of certain changes suggested by Professor Walter |