Moral Problems of Mental Defect

Father Cammack, S.J., might easily have found a more popular title for his book which deals from an unfamiliar angle with some very familiar problems of mental deficiency. It is an analysis, by a skilled moral theologian, of the nature of " moral deficiencya concept which is even more puzzling to the expert than to the amateur in the psychology of crime, who may see nothing particularly odd in the notion of a person being without moral sense. To have moral responsibility carefully examined and clearly defined is a useful preliminary to wise action, for loose thinking on this fundamental point has led to much futile discussion and inaccurate certification.