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The Punishment of the Insane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Extract

Punishment is the positive infliction of suffering as a righteous result of wrong-doing, and as a deterrent from its repetition. But the wrong-doing of the insane is the result of their malady, which produces it either directly through delusion, or indirectly by perverting their moral sense and relaxing their self-control.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1883 

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