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William Douglas Morrison
1852–1943
A Scottish-born clergyman and early criminology writer, he brought firsthand prison experience to books that tried to explain crime with care and evidence. His work moves between social reform, religion, and close observation of everyday life behind bars.
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Crime and Its Causes
by William Douglas Morrison
About the author
William Douglas Morrison was a clergyman, prison chaplain, and criminology writer whose career linked the church with the study of crime and punishment. Sources available here describe him as a prison chaplain and later rector of St Marylebone, and they connect him with some of the earlier English-language attempts to study criminal behavior in a systematic way.
He is best known for books such as Crime and Its Causes and Juvenile Offenders. What makes his work still interesting is its practical point of view: he wrote not just as a theorist, but as someone who had spent years working with prisoners and thinking carefully about what statistics and real lives could — and could not — tell us.
The material I could confirm also shows that he served as Rector of St Marylebone from 1908 until 1943. A reliable portrait was not clearly available from the pages I checked, so I have left the profile image blank rather than guess.