The criminal imbecile
Subtitle: an analysis of three remarkable murder cases
By: by Henry Herbert Goddard
Series: Making of modern law
Publisher: The MacMillan Co.
Published: 1915
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Crime; Murderers; Offenders with mental disabilities
Description: "This book is offered to the public in the belief that the three cases herein described are typical of a large proportion of criminal cases and that the analysis and discussion attempted will help to make clear important points which are often misunderstood, points relative to the criminal and to the imbecile. A clear conception of the nature of the imbecile and of his relation to crime will inevitably result in a most desirable change in our criminal procedure. It should be noted that we use "imbecile" in the legal sense which includes the moron and often the idiot as scientifically classified. This usage is justified since much of the literature still describes all mental defectives as imbeciles, idiots, or feeble-minded--according to the preference of the writers. These cases are unique in that they were the first court cases in which the Binet-Simon tests were admitted in evidence, the mental status of these persons under indictment being largely determined by this method"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).
Notes: Includes index.

Available to users with a valid Harvard ID and PIN.
Table of contents: title: The case of Jean Gianini; title: The case of Roland Pennington; title: The case of Fred Tronson; title: The criminal imbecile; title: Responsibility; title: The punishment for criminal imbeciles; title: Appendices: Gianini case.