Crime & criminals : being the jurisprudence of crime, medical biological, and psycological / by Charles Mercier... with an introduction by Sir Bryan Donkin.

  • Mercier, Charles Arthur, 1852-1919.
Date:
1918
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    National crimes, two kinds of, 112 et seq. Negligence, a jurisprudent’s view of, 127. Nervous system, the, influence on conduct, 7. Nest-building of birds, 10. Nidification, 10, 13. Occasional criminals, 234, 250. Offences against chastity, 180, 186. against marriage, 189 et seq. against the racial principle, 181, 192. committed for gain, 157. for personal security, 155 (see also Crimes). Officers of State, crimes against, 132. Official position, abuse of, 133. Omission, crimes of, 126. Opportunity and crime, 40 et seq. Organic life, a new aspect of, 81. Original sin, doctrine of, 203, 229. Ostrich, nest of the, 10. Ownership and property, 157. Pain, self-infliction of, 25. Parental affection, 90. instinct, 50. Parkman, Dr, murder of, 57. Peace, breach of the, 122. Penitentiaries, 229. Personal security, offences for, 155. violence and assault, 133. Personation, 130. Police districts in England and Wales, number of, 265. Political offences, 269. Porphyry’s division of the genus animal, 5. Positive doctrine, the, 207. Post-epileptic automatism, 29. Post-office monopoly, the, 136,137. Praxiology, definition of, xi. Press, the, censorship of advertise¬ ments, 257. Prevention of crime, 255 et seq. measures for, 130, 255 et seq. Primitive desires, 56. Prison system, reform of, 34. Private crimes, 113, 144 et seq. Procuring abortion, 196. Property, acquisition of, 161. and ownership, 157. basis of, 159. malicious damage to, 152. omissions in law as to, 163. three kinds of, 159. transfer of, 161. Prostitution, 186, 187, 188. Protective laws, 138. Proximate motives, 49. Psychology, definition of, xi. of crime, the, 47 et seq. Desire and Aversion, 48. feeling, 66. intellect, 55. will, 61. Public crimes, 100 etseq., 114 et seq. offences, minor, 134 et seq. subsidiary, 123. Pugnacity, 147. crimes prompted by, 146 Punishment, 266 et seq. as deterrence, 277. for crime, 94. promptitude and certainty of, the only deterrent of crime, 280. record of the criminal and, 274. the function of, 206. Pyromania, 241. Quinton, Dr, 58. Racial instincts, 89 et seq. motives, 145. principle, offences against, 181, 192. Railway trains, wrecking of, 153. Reason and instinct, 5 et seq. and motive, 51. as understood by the ancients, 5. meaning of, 22. {See also Intellect.) Recidivists, 241, 264. Reform of the criminal, 282. Religion, 34, 94, 116, 118. Reproduction a fundamental in¬ stinct, 78. antagonistic forces, 83. 19