PROJECT CAMIO (CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND THE MENTALLY INCOMPETENT OFFENDER), V 2 - THEORIES ON CRIMINALITY AND MENTAL RETARDATION

• NCJ Number: 12528
• Author(s): ANON
• Date Published: 1973
• Length: 153 pages
• Grant Number(s): R01-MR-07006 (HEW)
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare
• Corporate Author: Texas Dept of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE OF MENTAL RETARDATION, AND THEORETICAL TRENDS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MENTAL RETARDATION AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOR.

Abstract

THE INTRODUCTION PROVIDES A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF TERMINOLOGY AND ETIOLOGY. IN SECTION TWO, A REVIEW OF MENTAL RETARDATION FROM EARLY AGES TO THE PRESENT INDICATES A PROGRESSION FROM THE GENERAL EQUATION BETWEEN CRIMINALITY AND SUB-NORMAL INTELLIGENCE TO A GROWING AWARENESS THAT THE PREPONDERANCE OF MENTALLY RETARDED INDIVIDUALS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM MAY BE MORE AN ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL ARTIFACT THAN EVIDENCE FOR A CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP. THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER DISCUSSES THE DEVELOPING LAW CONCERNING RETARDATES, PRESENTS RELIGIOUS, PHYSICAL AND GENETIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL THEORIES OF MENTAL RETARDATION AND CRIME, AND DISCUSSES TREATMENT OF THE DEFECTIVE OFFENDER. THE CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT PROGRAMS INSTITUTED BY PENAL SYSTEMS ARE BECOMING ORIENTED TOWARD TREATMENT APPROPRIATE TO THE CONDITION OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED RATHER THAN TREATMENT GEARED TO CRIMINALITY. INCLUDED ARE TABLES INDICATING THE DATE, INVESTIGATOR, AND TYPE OF INVESTIGATION BASED UPON THE THEORIES OF LOMBROSO, NEUROLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS STEMMING FROM GALL'S THEORIES, AND A TABLE ON THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL, SOCIO-BIOLOGICAL, ETIOLOGICAL, AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES OF THE NATURE AND GENESIS OF CRIME. FOR OTHER VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES, SEE NCJ-12527, AND NCJ-12529 THROUGH 12534. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)