Crime: Its Cause and Treatment: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Crime: Its Cause and Treatment, credited to Clarence Darrow, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow. Read by Peter Yearsley Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians. In this book, Darrow expands on his lifelong contention that psychological, physical, and environmental influences—not a conscious choice between right and wrong—control human behavior. To my ears (the reader's), the author has a rather simplistic behaviourist view of human behaviour, but he argues his position with wonderful clarity. Darrow is coherently critical of conspiracy laws, of the creation of laws by the powerful (and consequently the definition of "crime" by that group) .... and his views on the machinery of "justice" and on how criminals are treated are still very relevant. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
• Author credits: Clarence Darrow
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 7:44:34

Catalogue topics

• crime
• criminals
• law
• justice
• human behavior

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 01 - Preface; Chapter 1: What Is Crime? — 21:16
2. 02 - Chapter 2: Purpose of Punishment — 28:33
3. 03 - Chapter 3: Responsibility for Crime — 14:17
4. 04 - Chapter 4: Environment — 5:21
5. 05 - Chapter 5: Adjusting Heredity and Environment — 4:47
6. 06 - Chapter 6: Psychology of Criminal Conduct — 20:28
7. 07 - Chapter 7: The Criminal — 22:48
8. 08 - Chapter 8: The Female Criminal — 5:27
9. 09 - Chapter 9: Juvenile Criminals — 9:20
10. 10 - Chapter 10: Homicide — 11:12
11. 11 - Chapter 11: Sex Crimes — 5:23
12. 12 - Chapter 12: Robbery and Burglary — 2:24
13. 13 - Chapter 13: Man as a Predatory Animal — 11:31
14. 14 - Chapter 14: Crimes against Property — 11:44
15. 15 - Chapter 15: Attitude of the Criminal — 11:56
16. 16 - Chapter 16: The Law and the Criminal — 23:21
17. 17 - Chapter 17: Repealing Laws — 6:33
18. 18 - Chapter 18: Is Crime Increasing? — 14:22
19. 19 - Chapter 19: Medical Experts — 11:05
20. 20 - Chapter 20: Punishment — 13:00
21. 21 - Chapter 21: The Effect of Punishment on Others — 5:27
22. 22 - Chapter 22: Evolution of Punishment — 7:39
23. 23 - Chapter 23: Capital Punishment — 10:19
24. 24 - Chapter 24: Stigmata of the Criminal — 8:53

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