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Excerpt from Crime and Criminals: Being the Jurisprudence of Crime, Medical, Biological, and Psychological
I welcome the opportunity of writing a few words of introduction to Dr Mercier's important work on the Jurisprudence of Crime. I have especial pleasure in so doing, not only from long friendship with him, and from my own great interest in the subject, but also from my conviction that his present book is pre-eminently sound in its principles and valuable in its application to practice.
It is now thirteen years since the author published his well-known work entitled Criminal Responsibility, which deals especially with the psychological aspect of crime, or the states of mind that accompany criminal actions. To that highly original and light-giving work - the first to establish firmly the doctrine and practice of taking into account grades of responsibility or just liability to punishment, in all decisions on criminal charges - this new book is a signally scientific and useful complement. Although it treats with noteworthy relevance of the medical, biological, and psychological aspects of crime, its most distinguishing marks, setting it beyond and above all other books on the subject that I have seen, are to be found in the chapters named "Kinds of Crime" and "Criminals" respectively.
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