Category: Psychiatry/Psychology
Such was the verdict by the jury of the Supreme Court of Herkimer County, New York, on May 28th, 1914, in the case of the people _vs._ Jean Gianini, indicted for the murder of Lida Beecher, his former teacher.
In the foregoing chapters we have discussed the problem involved in these murders from the standpoint of the law in order to show that even under the law, as it now exists, such...
1. CHAPTER ISuch was the verdict by the jury of the Supreme Court of Herkimer County, New York, on May 28th, 1914, in the case of the people _vs._ Jean Gianini, indicted for the murder of L...
2. CHAPTER IIOn November 7th, 1913, Lewis S. Pinkerton, the manager of a certain farm in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, suddenly disappeared. As it seemed probable that he was the victim of...
3. CHAPTER IIIOur third case is that of Fred Tronson of Portland, Oregon. What we know of the history of Tronson is brief, but amply sufficient to prove that he belongs to the group that we a...
4. CHAPTER IVFrom the description already given it will be seen that Roland Pennington is very different from Jean Gianini. Both are imbeciles, but each is an example of a special type. Gian...
5. CHAPTER VAll students of the psychology of childhood agree that not until the dawn of adolescence does reasoning as such begin to show itself in the child mind; that judgment and foresig...