We are now face to face with the startling fact that this army of defectives is increasing in numbers and relative fertility.
Consider what a burden is the criminal.

Every community is more or less terrorised by him; our property is liable to be plundered, our houses invaded, our women ravished, our children murdered.

To restrain him we must build gaols, and keep immense staffs of highly paid officials to tend him in confinement, and watch him when he is at liberty.
Notwithstanding these, crime is rife, and is rapidly increasing.

Says Douglas Morrison:--"It is perfectly well known to every serious student of criminal questions, both at home and abroad, that the proportion of habitual criminals in the criminal population is steadily on the increase, and was never so high as it is now....

The population under detention in reformatory institutions is increasing more rapidly than the growth of the community as a whole, and, as far as it is possible to see, the juvenile population in prisons is doing the same thing." Havelock Ellis ("The Criminal," p.