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Psychopathic Personality and Crime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

W. Norwood East*
Affiliation:
Royal Navy; Prisons, etc

Extract

Psychiatric research has elucidated many unrecognized facts, and added much to our knowledge of the causes of criminal behaviour in mentally abnormal persons. At the same time the fluidity of modern psychiatry, itself evidence of progress, makes it difficult always to present simply and clearly modern views in a court of law. “”

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1945 

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