Excerpt from The Criminal the Community Another unfortunate aspect is the position of the prison warder. Apart from the care of those under him, he is subject to so much personal discipline - is so much the slave of Rules - that his life often becomes little superior to that of his charges. In point of social origin or of intellectual attainments he is not inferior to the ordinary policeman but, while the policeman is taught by society, the warder Spends most of his time in an atmosphere of degradation, fatal both to character and to intellect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.