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Some Observations on the State of Society, past and present, in Relation to Criminal Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

David Nicolson*
Affiliation:
State Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Broadmoor

Extract

I have sought to point out and to illustrate how all-pervading was the hold which the belief in witchcraft obtained upon all classes of society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I have pointed out how a species of criminal lunacy arose in connection with this belief; and how in the same connection, society might be said not only to have created a crime, but also to have manufactured the criminals.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1883 

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