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Criminal Punishment and Psychiatric Fallacies

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The Crime of Punishment. Karl Menninger. New York: Viking Press. 1968. $8.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Jeffrie G. Murphy
Jeffrie G. Murphy*
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University of Arizona
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Nowhere is this general tendency expressed by Brandeis more prominent than in the area of criminal law. In spite of the reasoned warnings of some writers, we are greeted by a continuous stream of books and articles from psychiatrists and psychoanalysts (and their judicial followers) with one common theme: Criminal punishment is an unscientific survival of barbarism and must be replaced by a system of individual and social therapy. To believe otherwise is to be unscientific and (if the distinction is recognized) immoral.

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Review Essay
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Law & Society Review , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , August 1969 , pp. 111 - 122
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Copyright © 1969 by the Law and Society Association

References

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