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Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

by Clarence Darrow

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Darrow argues the position that ran through every criminal defence he made: that conduct is caused by heredity and environment, that free moral choice is an illusion, and that punishment as retribution is therefore both cruel and useless. It is the fullest statement of the philosophy behind America’s most famous defence lawyer.

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