 In the nineteenth century we believed that justice consisted in imposing upon this wilful wrongdoer a penalty exactly corresponding to his crime. It was not a question of treatment of this offender, but of the exact retribution appropriate to this crime....  Michigan State Bar Journal - Page 991923Full view - About this book
 | National Council on Crime and Delinquency - Parole - 1920 - 664 pages
...conception of the function of the criminal court of today. Our traditional criminal law has considered the offender as a free moral agent, who, having before him the choice whether to do right or wrong, deliberately and intentionally choses to do wrong; and justice consisted in imposing upon this willful... | |
 | 1921 - 318 pages
...or to prevent. CHANGED IDEAS AS TO THE END OF CRIMINAL LAW 1. The Passing of the Retributive Theory Our traditional criminal law thinks of the offender...offender, but of the exact retribution appropriate to this crime. We know today that the matter is much more complicated than this simple theory assumes.... | |
 | Cleveland Foundation, Raymond Blaine Fosdick - History - 1922 - 782 pages
...or to prevent. CHANGED IDEAS AS TO THE END OF CRIMINAL LAW 1. The Passing of the Retributive Theory Our traditional criminal law thinks of the offender...offender, but of the exact retribution appropriate to this crime. We know today that the matter is much more complicated than this simple theory assumes.... | |
 | James Ford - Christian sociology - 1923 - 1052 pages
...or to prevent. Changed Ideas as to the End of Criminal Law 1. The passing of the retributive theory. Our traditional criminal law thinks of the offender...offender, but of the exact retribution appropriate to this crime. We know today that the matter is much more complicated than this simple theory assumes.... | |
 | Francis Bowes Sayre - Criminal law - 1927 - 1192 pages
...or to prevent. CHANGED IDEAS As To THE END or CRIMINAL LAW 1. The Passing of the Retributive Theory Our traditional criminal law thinks of the offender...offender, but of the exact retribution appropriate to this crime. We know today that the matter is much more complicated than this simple theory assumes.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1943 - 182 pages
...something spontaneously in view of the exigencies of a particular case. * * *" His report continues : "Our traditional criminal law thinks of the offender...to do wrong. In the nineteenth century, we believed tbart justice consisted in imposing on this willful wrongdoer a penalty exactly corresponding with... | |
 | Criminal anthropology - 1922 - 420 pages
...consideration of the treatment of the offender rather than retribution appropriate to his crime alone. Traditional criminal law thinks of the offender as a free moral agent, but recent developments in medical science, psychology, and psychopathology required that our theory... | |
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