The Criminal Insane and Insane Criminals

The Juridical Society, and the Criminal Responsibility of the Insane

men on the subject of insanity, that barristers are in the habit of making on occasions when they defend prisoners charged with criminal offences, could ever dissipate the dense obscurity which surrounds these subjects in the public mind. The legal profession generally, and especially the judges, have so little practical acquaintance with insanity, that their minds are absolutely unable to comp...

Insane Delusions

Who Is Insane?

between himself and an insane woman, he comes close to a satisfactory definition of insanity when he says to her, "You, of course, are insane, for this reason, the law provides that only insane persons shall be confined in asylums for the insane, while the sane are rigidly excluded. Now, as between you and me, you are legally confined in this asylum, and I am legally excluded; therefore, when y...

[Insane railroad workers].

American Institutions for the Insane

We subjoin an able article from the pen of a distinguished American psychologist, Dr. Pliny Enrle, on the present state of the principal Asylums for the Insane in the United States of America.* It is taken from two consecutive numbers of Dr. Hay's ably conducted and excellent periodical, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. The reports upon which this paper is based are so difficult to...