About This Book
This 1912 paper analyzes the various issues behind a proposal aimed at preventing the increase of criminals, the sterilization of the mentally deficient. It looks into the legal problems surrounding such a proposal, as well as an alternative segregation plan, to document the proposal’s ineffectiveness.
HENRY H. GODDARD was professor at the Department of Research at the Vineland Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, Vineland, N.J.