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The Measure of Individual and Social Responsibility in Criminal Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Dav. Nicolson
Dav. Nicolson*
Affiliation:
State Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Broadmoor; H.M. Convict Prison, Portsmouth
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At noon, on Tuesday, the 15th of January last, Mr. Eugéne Hamburger met, in the busy Metropolitan thoroughfare, “Holborn Viaduct,” a jewel dealer, named Jackson, with whom he had some slight business acquaintance. With the view of exhibiting his wares, Hamburger consented to accompany the dealer into an as yet unoccupied office of the latter on the Viaduct. Upon entering the room, Hamburger was about to take a parcel of pearls from his bag, when Jackson fired a pistol at him, wounding him in the head, and afterwards continued the assault by drawing a dagger and stabbing him. In the struggle that ensued, Hamburger succeeded in overpowering and disarming his assailant, who escaped from the room and disappeared. The wounded man thereafter proceeded home in a cab, and recovered from his injuries.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 24 , Issue 105 , April 1878 , pp. 1 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1878 

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Notes

∗ “The Hertfordshire Mercury” for March 10th, 1877.Google Scholar

∗ McNanghten was tried in 1813 for the morder of Mr. Drammond, and acquitted on the ground of insanity.Google Scholar

∗ “Times,” Aug. 2nd, 1875.Google Scholar

∗ “Somerset County Gazette and Bristol Express,” Aug. 16th, 1873.Google Scholar

∗ Vol. i., B. iv., c. ii-, p. 23-4.Google Scholar

∗ Article on “Psychology of Criminals”—“Journal of Mental Science,” Oct., 1870.Google Scholar

∗ At the International Prison Congress held in London in 1872. Count D'Alinge, of Saxony, pointed out that the object of prison legislation and administration with regard to criminals is to “restore the morally sick to health, to temporal and spiritual salvation.”Google Scholar

† “Responsibility in Mental Disease,” International Scientific Series, 1874, Chap. I.Google Scholar

∗ “Unsoundness of Mind in Relation to Criminal Acts.”Google Scholar

∗ “The present Relation of Insanity to the Criminal Law of England.” British Medical Journal, October 3th and 20th, 1877.Google Scholar

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