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The Detection of Insanity in Prisons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. J. Pitcairn
J. J. Pitcairn*
Affiliation:
H.M. Prison, Holloway
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It is frequently levied as a reproach to prison surgeons that they fail to realise how slender and impalpable is the border-line between crime and insanity, and that the proper inmates of an asylum are too frequently treated with the penal discipline of a prison.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 43 , Issue 180 , January 1897 , pp. 58 - 63
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1897 
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