Dostoevsky's Doctrine of Criminal Responsibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14828494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul C Squires (0009-0008-5209-6776, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1937 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 817 |
| Publication date | 1937-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-2731 • E-ISSN: 2160-0015 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1137532 |
| OpenAlex | W2324729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
He who gave to the world the universal story of Crime and Punishment and the astounding psychological subtleties of Dmitri Karamazov's trial for parricide, wrote in his early youth this inspired text: Man is a mystery. It must be unraveled, and if you give your life to the task, do not say that you have wasted it; I devote myself to this mystery because I wish to be a man. Dostoevsky's life and works constitute one great, unceasing rebellion. Who could better bring us insight into the mind of the criminal--of the protester-than this unhappy being so hopelessly cleft within, a prey to the darker thoughts, a soul and body that had undergone the years of bondage in the House of the Dead? Nietzsche said: Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn. And in a letter by Georg Brandes to the author of Zarathustra we read: Look at Dostoevsky's face: half the face of a Russian peasant, half the physiognomy of a criminal
Criminal law · Criminal responsibility · Criminology · Doctrine · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1938 - 2022 (85) |
| Highly cited | No |