If he had made the same efforts to observe people who hang about the law courts--detectives, spies, small solicitors, informers, people preying upon simpletons, and the like--he would have probably concluded that his ‘criminal type’ has a far greater geographical extension than the prison walls.
Kropotkin argues that the concept of a 'criminal type' extends beyond prison walls to those around law courts.
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