Crime and the Man - vintage 1939 phrenological text

In 1938, when Prof. E. A. Hooton had completed a survey of the bodily features of American criminals and compared them with observations made on corresponding samples of ‘unconvicted’ civilians, he was invited by the Lowell Institute to give lectures on the harvest he had reaped. These lectures have been published as a book under the title “Crime and the Man”; they give a clear and almost joyous account of a survey of the prison population of ten States, which occupied more than twelve years, included upwards of 17,000 individuals and involved the tabulation and statistical treatment of about 2J millions of measurements and observations. "For a number of years Mr. Hooton has been engaged upon a nation-wide investigation of criminals, in an effort to discover whether there is any relation between their antisocial conduct and their physical characteristics. The results are here set down with the humor and vividness that characterize all the writings of this noted anthropologist...:" Crime and the Man - Earnest Albert Hooton Published 1939, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts Approx 6.5x9.5 inches Dust jacket has numerous tears and chunks missing; the book is in otherwise good condition.