Criminal Punishment and Psychiatric Fallacies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4084456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrie G Murphy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-122 |
| Publication date | 1969-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3052764 |
| OpenAlex | W4236461599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Nowhere is this general tendency expressed by Brandeis more prominent than in the area of criminal law. In spite of the reasoned warnings of some writers, we are greeted by a continuous stream of books and articles from psychiatrists and psychoanalysts (and their judicial followers) with one common theme: Criminal punishment is an unscientific survival of barbarism and must be replaced by a system of individual and social therapy. To believe otherwise is to be unscientific and (if the distinction is recognized) immoral
Criminal law · Criminology · Political science · Psychiatry · Punishment (psychology · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychiatric care and mental health services · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1971 - 1971 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |