In the chapter on Responsibility we have tried to indicate the difference between verbal morality and deep-seated, appreciated, moral principle. A child may have the former but the latter comes only with experience and the age at least of the adolescent.

We would remind the reader that in the confessions and the appendices we have had at hand only stenographic reports.

If this book shall help the lawyer to make a more successful defense of the imbecile criminal, the judge to dispense justice to this much misunderstood class of high grade imbeciles, and society in general to realize its responsibility for the mental defective, it will have fulfilled its mission.

H. H. G.

Research Laboratory of the Training School
in Vineland, N. J.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Preface[v]
CHAPTER
[I.]The Case of Jean Gianini[1]
[II.]The Case of Roland Pennington[42]
[III.]The Case of Fred Tronson[65]
[IV.]The Criminal Imbecile[83]
[V.]Responsibility[94]
[VI.]The Punishment for Criminal Imbeciles[100]
APPENDICES
[A.]Gianini Case. Hypothetical Question Propounded by the Defense[109]
[B.]Gianini Case. Hypothetical Question Propounded by the Prosecution[131]
[C.]Gianini Case. Defendant’s Request to Charge[139]
Index[155]