Abstract
As Medical Superintendent of Broadmoor Asylum., Dr. Sullivan is in a position to speak with authority on a subject which is now arousing considerable interest, not only in medical men and jurists, but also among the general public. There is no lack of literature dealing with disorders of conduct from the point of view of the alienist, and with criminal responsibility of the insane considered on the standards imposed by the law. The efforts of the author of “Crime and Insanity” have been directed towards presenting the abnormalities of conduct which are dependent on mental disease, as clinical features demanding a study of their nature and origin; and this book is a proof that when approached on these lines, the more special question of criminal responsibility becomes less complex and loses much of the obscurity with which legal subtleties have cloaked it.
Crime and Insanity.
By Dr. W. C. Sullivan. Pp. vii + 259. (London: E. Arnold and Co., 1924.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Crime and Insanity . Nature 115, 414 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115414a0
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