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18 Medico-Legal J. 341 (1900-1901)
The Relation of Criminality in the Offspring to Alcoholism in the Parents

handle is hein.journals/medlejo18 and id is 353 raw text is: THE RELATION OF CRIMINALITY IN THE OFFSPRING TO ALCOHOLISM IN THE PARENTS. A CLINICAL STUDY. BY LOUISE G. ROBINOVITCH, B. ES L., (PARIS) M. D., OF NEW YORK, FOREIGN ASSOCIATE MEMBER, MEDICO- PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, PARIS. Inspired by the remarkable works of Dr. Magnan, who has already exhausted this subject, I have undertaken the task of tracing the extent to which alcoholism in the pa- rent is responsible for that psycho-pathology in the off- spring which manifests itself in criminality. Cognizant as the researches of Professor Joffroy and Dr. Magnan have made us of the direct action of the alcoholic poison upon the brain, it only remains for us to closely ex- amine the clinical material in the asylums and prisons and to trace the histories so as to develope the extent to which the criminals we find there are indebted for their morbid mental condition to the subjection of their parents to the action of the alcoholic poison. In selecting subjects for the demonstration of this start- ing point in the evolution of criminality, it at once be- comes apparent that, in order to avoid confusion or mis- taken conclusions, it would be necessary to exclude from consideration subjects whose mental condition make them irresponsible for their acts. Those who have committed crimes against society under the influences of impulses, delirii, in all their varieties, conscious or unconscious (in Read before the International Congress of Psychiatry, Paris, 19oo. Read before the Medico-Legal Society of New York, November Session, 1900.

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