Recent Penal Legislation in Relation to Mental Health Problems *Address (abridged) given at Conference of Association of Mental Health Workers, Chester. February, 1939.Published with the permission of H. M. Prison Commissioners though it does not necessarily represent their views.
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By H. K. SNELL, M.D. Medical Officer, H.M. Prison, Liverpool The new scientific approach to the problem of the criminal may perhaps be said to date from the war period, but one of the most important measures foretelling the change in opinion which was to follow later, was the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913. This (in Sections 8 and 9) involved the recognition of a partial lack of responsibility in the mentally defective individual who committed
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