 | 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... | |
 | Bar associations - 1923 - 260 pages
...which Professor Pound refers in speaking of changed ideas as to the end of criminal law, when he says, "Our traditional criminal law thinks of the offender...offender, but of the exact retribution appropriate to his crime. We know today that the matter is much more complicated than this simple theory assumes.... | |
 | Bar associations - 1923 - 256 pages
...which Professor Pound refers in speaking of changed ideas as to the end of criminal law, when he says, "Our traditional criminal law thinks of the offender...offender, but of the exact retribution appropriate to his 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... | |
 | Justice, Administration of - 1921 - 770 pages
...which Professor Pound refers in speaking of changed ideas as to the end of criminal law, when he says, "Our traditional criminal law thinks of the offender...offender, but of the exact retribution appropriate to his crime. We know today that the matter is much more complicated than this simple theory assumes.... | |
 | 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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Our traditional criminal law thinks of the offender as a free moral agent who, having before him the choice whether to do right or wrong, intentionally chose to do wrong. 