A Lecture ON CRIME AND MENTAL DEFICIENCY.

Crime and Mental Subnormality

Crime and Mental Wellbeing

Crime and Mental Wellbeing We provide empirical evidence of crime’s impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime victimization and that the violent crime rate has a negative impact on mental well...

Mental Abnormality and Crime

the wrongdoer so as to deter him from repeating the offence or others from imitating him. Nowadays a more subjective attitude is being taken so that the welfare and reform of the criminal are considered. This leads to the conception of partial responsibility and the infliction of the indeterminate curative sentence. The first essay is by Brig. Rees who stresses the importance of diagnosis befor...

Mental Inefficiency and Crime

to be found in these pages the latest facts and figures as to what is actually happening but they also reveal how the problem is presenting itself to those most closely at grips with it, and what is the angle from which it is being approached. From the report before us we learn that so far as the working of Section J of the Mental Deficiency Act is concerned, the position is distinctly improvin...

Mental Deficiency and Divorce

^ husband's petition for divorce failed because the judge ruled that Cental deficiency, the basis for the petition, did not constitute being incurably of unsound mind' within the Matrimonial Causes Act. B"t in another case a judge ruled that a mental defective was within tl?e definition of persons of unsound mind. By Donald Ellison (Barrister at Law). ft 1939, a husband, then aged 20, married a...