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Recidivism regarded from the Environmental and Psychopatological Standpoints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

J. F. Sutherland
J. F. Sutherland*
Affiliation:
Deputy Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland
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With the view of testing to what extent an interchange took place between the perpetrators of the four major crimes I have prepared a return of 370 convicts and long-term prisoners in Scotland, convicted of (i) homicides, assaults, etc.; (2) crimes against property with violence; and (3) vjitliout violence; and (4) crimes against chastity. The result, an interesting one, finds expression in the following figures.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 53 , Issue 223 , July 1907 , pp. 568 - 590
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1907 

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4 England 20, 760, Scotland 2880, Ireland 2550.Google Scholar

5 In this connection the assistance of Dr. Sinclair, Medical Officer, H. M. Prison, Barlinnie, and Dr. McWalter, Medical Officer to H. M. Convict Prison, Peterhead, is recognised with thanks.Google Scholar

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7 Aided by the Carnegie Research Fund.Google Scholar

8 The shires of Kirkcudbright and Wigton.Google Scholar

9 Within living memory in Glasgow these weary wayfarers in the night shelters, there being no shakedowns, laid their chests across a taut rope which the keeper in the morning cut in order to wake them all up, as the gong does the guests at a hotel.Google Scholar

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