The Criminal imbecile ; an analysis of three remarkable murber casesMacmillan Company, 1915 - 157 страници |
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Страница 11 - This is the mildest degree of mental defect, and the feeble-minded person is ' ' one who is capable of earning a living under favorable circumstances, but is incapable, from mental defect existing from birth, or from an early age, (a) of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows; or (b) of managing himself and his affairs with ordinary prudence.
Страница 129 - A person is not excused from criminal liability as an idiot, imbecile, lunatic, or insane person, except upon proof that, at the time of committing the alleged criminal act, he was laboring under such a defect of reason as £either] : . 1. Not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, 2. Not to know that the act was wrong.
Страница 142 - If the jury cannot say beyond a doubt that the defendant was sane at the time of the commission of the alleged act, or cannot say whether, at that time, he was sane or insane, they are bound to acquit him.
Страница 128 - An act done by a person who is an idiot, imbecile, lunatic or insane is not a crime. A person can not be tried, sentenced to any punishment or punished for a crime while he is in a state of idiocy, imbecility, lunacy or insanity so as to be incapable of understanding the proceeding or making his defense.
Страница 161 - No more striking example of the supreme force of heredity could be desired." — The Dial. " The most illuminating and complete of all the studies in heredity that have ever been made, with the view of showing the descent of mental deficiency.
Страница 143 - The question is, whether the prisoner was laboring under that species of insanity which satisfies you that he was quite unaware of the nature, character, and consequences of the act he was committing, or in other words, whether he was under the influence of a diseased mind, and was really unconscious, at the time he was committing the act, that it was a crime.
Страница 11 - Amentia, or mental deficiency, may be defined as " a state of mental defect from birth, or from an early age, due to incomplete cerebral development, in consequence of which the person affected is unable to perform his duties as a member of society in the position of life to which he is born.
Страница 106 - Careful studies have shown beyond the peradventure of doubt that at least two-thirds of these mental defectives have inherited their defect, in other words, that they belong to strains of the human family whose intelligence lies below that which is required for the performance of their duties as citizens.
Страница 161 - Bulletin of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. " This is the most convincing of the sociological studies brought out by the eugenics movement." — The Independent. "The book is an exceedingly important monograph and will be of interest to all students of heredity and eugenics as well as to social workers and reformers." — Social Diseases. "Dr. Goddard has made a 'find'; and he has also had the training which enables him to utilize his discovery to the utmost.