IRRESPONSIBILITY OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS
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Abstract
1. The constitutional psychopath or the psychopathic personality represents the most difficult group of all the mentally sick individuals with which the medical and legal professions have to deal. Particularly baffling are those psychopaths who show evidences of perversions in relation to their sexual drives. 2. The psychiatrist is in a position to recognize in many instances during the preadolescence years definite tendencies for these unstable children to incorporate into the framework of their disintegrated personalities sexual anomalies which are significant and have grave implications. We recognize that such individuals are not governed by the same inhibiting forces as the normal individual. They are impulsive, cunning, and unpredictable. They have no regrets, remorse, or sense of guilt about their asocial activities. They do not profit from experience, they are not restrained by punishment, and up to the present time they do not improve under treatment. 3. The case presented is an example of the per...