Thomas Mott Osborne

From _Criminal Man_, Godwin.
argument based on a simple proposition, based on human nature. All real discipline is self-imposed, therefore external discipline, being coercive, is effective only while the coercive power exists.
- Is the real problem here, then, our system of government and our social/political environment? The classification of the criminal body was perhaps simply a strategy that enforced a number of self-policing systems.
Social re-education: brainwashing.
Kenyon J. Scudder, Superintendent of the California Institution for Men. "If we can successfully adjust men in prison after they have run the whole gamut of the law, if we can get them over the fear of work, if we can send them back to society a little better than when they entered, then how much more sensible it would be if we could reach these cases earlier in life before the damage has been done; reach them in the early years of childhood before they become delinquent, before we allow them to enter on a criminal career. We make our criminals in this country. They are not born into crime." p145