Broadcast: 1st February 1938

Starring: Various

Added: May 05 2003

The criminologist is often asked what are the contributory causes of crime. This of coarse is a complicated subject and cannot be treated in a few words but it may be safely said that it is rarely hereditary but almost always physical and social environment that is lack of proper home conditions, lack of good influence and bad companionship. One of the worst of all influences springs from making a criminal a romantic glamorous figure in whose footsteps it is easy and attractive to follow. The criminal possesses none of these attributes and should always be presented, as he is, a scourge of civilized society. Now listen to the case History of Dallas Egan…