ABSTRACT
War usually intensifies the gravity of the crime problem. After years of war many who have to handle delinquents, and a considerable number of those amid the general public interested in criminals, are worried about the volume of lawlessness, particularly among the young. A study of the fundamental causes of crime seems, therefore, to be an urgent need. So far both official and public attention has been mostly concentrated upon measures designed to improve methods dealing with the criminals themselves. Crime and Psychology, provided a programme for making drastic changes in such methods in accord with the established principles of modern psychology. But reforms in the treatment of criminals should be solidly based on sound knowledge of the fundamental causes of crime.
