Abstract
Humanity will never be free of crime because the human being is a sinner by nature. As the French criminologist, G. Tarde, wrote: "If the tree of crime with all its roots were ripped out, a gaping abyss would be left in society. " The only question, then, is the depth of this abyss. Or the nature of the disease: Is this a gangrene that can be stopped with a scalpel, or is it a cancerous metastasis, already beyond hope?