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The Modern Psychiatric Approach to Crime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

W. Norwood East
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The general object of the Criminal Justice Bill, now before Parliament, as set out in the explanatory Memorandum, is to improve the methods of dealing with persons found guilty of offences, including adolescent offenders and persons who commit repeated offences. It so happens that the Home Office has recently issued, as a Stationery Office publication, a Report on the Psychological Treatment of Crime which was made to the Secretary of State by Dr. Hubert and myself. The present position of psychiatry in relation to crime, therefore, seemed a fitting subject to discuss at this Conference.

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Part II.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 85 , Issue 357 , July 1939 , pp. 649 - 666
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1939 

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∗ An address delivered on April 15, 1939, at the Home Office to the Prison Medical Officers' Annual Conference.Google Scholar

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∗ Throughout these clinical lectures I can find no record of a temperature reading, and since clinical thermometers did not come into general use in the practice of medicine until well in the nineteenth century Hilton may not have used this instrument. In a personal letter the Conservator of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum informs me that in 1867 Sir Clifford Allbutt invented a short pocket clinical thermometer similar in size to the modern instrument, and from that date onwards the clinical thermometer gradually received general adoption throughout the profession.Google Scholar

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† This analysis is part of an official investigation which has been carried out since 1930, but is not yet completed. Publication will follow at a future date.Google Scholar

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∗ See Mapother, E. Prof., Norman Kerr Lecture, 1938.Google Scholar

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