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STUDIES IN

FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
CRIMINAL SCIENCE MONOGRAPH No. 2 Supplement to the Journal of THE
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
STUDIES IN
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
BY
BERNARD GLUECK, M.D. INSTRUCTOR IN PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY
IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENTS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AND
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITIES
FROM THE CRIMINAL DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE
INSANE DR. WILLIAM A. WHITE, SUPERINTENDENT
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1916
KRAUS REPRINT CO. New York 1969
Copyright, 1916,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
All rights reserved
Published, September, 1916
LC 16-20410
Reprinted with the permission of the author KRAUS REPRINT CO. A U.S. Division of
Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited
Printed in U.S.A.

EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
This volume is one of a series of Monograph Supplements to the Journal of Criminal Law
and Criminology. The publication of the Monographs is authorized by the American
Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Such a series has become necessary in
America by reason of the rapid development of criminological research in this country
since the organization of the Institute. Criminology draws upon many independent
branches of science, such as Psychology, Anthropology, Neurology, Medicine, Education,
Sociology, and Law. These sciences contribute to our understanding of the nature of the
delinquent and to our knowledge of those conditions in home, occupation, school, prison,

etc., which are best adapted to elicit the behavior that the race has learned to approve and
cherish.
This series of Monographs, therefore, will include researches in each of these
departments of knowledge insofar as they meet our special interest.
It is confidently anticipated that the series will stimulate the study of the problems of
delinquency, the State control of which commands as great expenditure of human toil and
treasure as does the control of constructive public education.
ROBERT H. GAULT, } Editor of the Journal of Criminal } Law and Criminology. }
Northwestern University. } } FREDERIC B. CROSSLEY, } COMMITTEE ON
PUBLICATION Northwestern University. } OF THE } AMERICAN INSTITUTE
JAMES W. GARNER, } OF CRIMINAL University of Illinois. } LAW AND
CRIMINOLOGY. } HORACE SECRIST, } Northwestern University. } } HERMAN C.
STEVENS, } University of Chicago. }

PREFACE
When, in 1810, Franz Joseph Gall said: "The measure of culpability and the measure of
punishment can not be determined by a study of the illegal act, but only by a study of the
individual committing it," he expressed an idea which has, in late years, come to be
regarded as a trite truism. This called forth as an unavoidable consequence a more lively
interest on the part of various social agencies in the personality of the criminal, with the
resultant gradually increasing conviction that the suppression of crime is not primarily a
legal question, but is rather a problem for the physician, sociologist, and economist.
Whatever light has been thrown in recent years upon this most important social problem,
criminality, did not issue from a contemplation of the abstract and more or less sterile
theses on crime and punishment as reflected in current works on criminal law and
procedure, but was the result of research carried on at the hands of the physician,
especially the psychopathologist, sociologist, and economist. The slogan of the modern
criminologist is, "intensive study of the individual delinquent from all angles and points
of view", rather than mere insistence upon the precise application of a definite kind of
punishment to a definite crime as outlined by statute. Indeed, the whole idea of
punishment is giving way