Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life

· 1907

PAGE I. THE CRIMINAL IN THE OPEN 1 II. THE CHILDREN OF THE ROAD 28 III. CLUB LIFE AMONG OUTCASTS 67 IV. THE AMERICAN TRAMP CONSIDERED GEOGRAPHICALLY 91 V. THE CITY TRAMP 113 VI. WHAT THE TRAMP EATS AND WEARS 137 Up to the present time the criminal has been studied exclusively behind prison-bars, after he has been caught, tried, and convicted. Out of durance he is his own master, and is naturally averse to being measured and experimented upon by scientists; hence the criminologist has been forced to await the almost certain vicissitudes which bring him once more inside a prison-cell. Here he has been subjected to the most minute examinations; and there exists a bulky literature on the result…

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