"whereas,

it is exceedingly desirable that important treatises on criminology in foreign languages be readily accessible in the English language, Resolved, that the president appoint a cinnuttee if five with power to select such treatises as in their judgement should be translated, and to arrange for their publication." Resolution of the National Conference of Criminal Law and Criminology, held at Northwestern University in Chicago, June, 1909.
Who were these five men? They chose certain publications; why?
"For the community at large, it is important to recognise that criminal science is a larger thing than criminal law. The legal profession in particular has a duty to familiarize itself with the principles of that science, as the sole means for intelligent and systematic improvement of the criminal system." -E. Ray Stevens, Judge of the Circuit Court, Madison, Wis., Member of the Executive Board of American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.
This man was a judge; an on-the-ground, practical applier of scientific tenet to the lives of criminals. He had the power to implement the suggestions of anthropologists, physicians and psychologists. His belief in the application of these scientific advances is an important signifier of the connection between science and policing/jurisprudence and incarceration.
The connection between these fields- one relatively removed from practical application, and whose primary interactions with the criminal is one of an evidence-collector, and the other which is interacting with the criminal daily, on an actual personal level- is an important one to examine. Theb many lines that science created separating the "normal" social individual and the delinquent made it easier- or perhaps even important- for these rank and file policemen, judges, wardens and guards to treat the criminal with even more distance than before.
Thoughts about feeble-mindedness: if the feebleminded commit crimes, are in fact more biologically apt to be criminals, then what do we say about the rich and acceptably intelligent that were committing crimes of embezzlement, etc?