Studies in Forensic Psychiatry

By Bernard Glueck, Washington Asylum Hospital, Washington Washington Asylum

Book Overview

When, in 1810, Franz Joseph Gall said: "The measure of culpability and the measure of punishment can not be determined by a study of the illegal act, but only by a study of the individual committing it," he expressed an idea which has, in late years, come to be regarded as a trite truism. This called forth as an unavoidable consequence a more lively interest on the part of various social agencies in the personality of the criminal, with the resultant gradually increasing conviction that the suppression of crime is not primarily a legal question, but is rather a problem for the physician, sociologist, and economist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512109681
• ISBN13: 9781512109689
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"