Unsoundness of mind in relation to criminal acts / by John Charles Bucknill.

  • John Charles Bucknill
Date:
1854
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Credit: Unsoundness of mind in relation to criminal acts / by John Charles Bucknill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    lunatics in England requires complete revision, and that no modification of existing arrange- ments can be satisfactory. The experience of Drs. White and Nugent in the enlightened management of criminal lu- natics at Dundrum, so ably stated in their sixth Report, from the 14th to the 18th page, will afford invaluable guidance to the English Government in any attempts to render the classification and management of criminal lu- natics what the justice, intelligence, and hu- manity of the age demand that it should be. [The author treats on this subject at length in his tract On the Classification and Management of Criminal Lunatics. See Appendix, Note F.] Of not less importance than some modifica- tions of the inflexibility of English law in relation to entire responsibility, or irresponsi- bility, is the necessity of discovering some more fitting tribunal to decide upon the delicate ques- tion of insanity, than that rough instrument of justice, a common jury. Various suggestions have been made to effect this purpose; than which none appear more practical and less objectionable than the French system of em- ploying experts. These are persons ap- pointed in the course of judicial proceedings, either by the court, or by the agreement of
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