Guillotiner les simples d’esprit et les « demi-fous » ? Atténuation de la responsabilité pénale et application de la peine de mort (France, IVe République)
The Chaumié circular introduced the notion of « diminished responsibility » in 1905 in order to consider criminal defendants with mental retardations or psychic abnormalities. During the Fourth Republic (1947-1959), psychiatric examinations were almost always conducted in criminal cases, especially...
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Criminocorpus
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Criminocorpus |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/2725 |