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Ethics as applied to Criminology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Arthur MacDonald*
Affiliation:
Clark University, Worcester, Mass., U.S.A.

Extract

The relation of criminality to the other forms of pathological and abnormal humanity is one of degree. If we represent the highest degree, as crime, by A6, A5, say, would stand for insane criminality, and A4 for alcoholism, perhaps, A3 for pauperism, A2 for those weak forms of humanity that charity treats more especially, and A for the idea of wrong in general, particularly in its lightest forms. Thus, crime is the most exaggerated form of wrong; but these forms are all one in essence. A drop of water is as much water as is an ocean.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1891

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