The New Theory of the Perpetrator and the Duties of the Psychiatrical Expert

There are very good reasons in favor of the principle that crim-inal law must not take into consideration anything but the real facts of the case; the real aim is however to reform the culprit's position within criminal law. Casting a retrospective glance at how the problem of the culprit has been treated during the last fifty years we are able to distinguish two phases; a positivistic and a non-positivistic one. The final aim of criminological positivism is to find the reasons why a certain person committed a certain crime on a certain place, at a certain time. This question is parallel to the problem of the Laplace formula of the Universe. Positivists regard all individual fields of science (e.g., Criminal Statistics, Criminal Biology, Crim-inal Psychopathology, the Art of Deduction, the isolated analysis of certain phenomena, like Graphology) as components of a mosaic picture which will reveal the connection-viz, the causal interrela

Criminology · Computer Science · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Free Will and Agency · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

• Lehrbuch des Deutschen Strafrechts

  Franz von Liszt, Franz v Liszt et al.•Lehrbuch des Deutschen Strafrechts•1922

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