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Criminal Lunatics: Are they responsible? Being an examination of “The Plea of Insanity.” In a Letter to the Lord High Chancellor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. Russell Reynolds*
Affiliation:
London, Churchill, 1856

Extract

We commenced the perusal of this work with a degree of interest commensurate with the reputation of its talented author; and we must confess this interest has not been disappointed, for it contains new and bold views, urged upon grounds which certainly possess the interest of originality; but which, as certainly will not bear to be measured by the author's standard of truth and rectitude, namely, “the common sense or consense of humanity.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1857 

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