Phylobiological Aspects of Forensic Psychiatry

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14829331
AutoresHans Syz (Computer Science Laboratory of Lille, autor de correspondencia)
Año1938
Volumen29
Número1
Páginas76
Fecha de publicación1938-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951 (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0885-2731 • E-ISSN: 2160-0015
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1137350
OpenAlexW74397503
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas16

Forensic psychiatry has to do with the effort to investigate illegal or criminal behavior from a medical or biological point of view. This phase of psychiatry deals with the individual who is in conflict with the moral codes set up by society-the individual who is not necessarily mentally deranged in the accepted sense but who deviates from socially approved behavior. It attempts especially to trace the relation between criminal or antisocial conduct and the disorganization of behavior observed in insane or neurotic manifestations. On the basis of such investigations it is the aim of forensic psychiatry to offer advice regarding the treatment and legal management of criminality. Some investigators in this field admit that the existing approaches to and regulations of criminal conduct have so far yielded only inadequate results. R. C. Cabot in his foreword to Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck's study of Five Hundred Criminal Careers (1) says that Psychiatry and psychology have given thus far few if any clues of proved usefulness in the treatment of crime and that The book merely brings to light in the experience of one institution the general bankruptcy of our remedies for crime. A similar pessimistic note has been sounded by the Gluecks themselves when they state in the conclusion of their study of one thousand juvenile delinquents published in 1934, (2) that neither psychiatrists nor sociologists have as yet built up a science of criminology. They write: The major conclusion is inescapable that the treatment carried out by clinic, court and associated community facilities had very little effect in preventing recidivism. However, other investigators (for instance Cyril Burt (3), and also Healy and Bronner (4)), report that a well organized treatment of delinquents, especially of juvenile cases, yields more positive results

Criminology · Forensic psychiatry · Forensic science · Psychiatry · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending