The Calcutta Law Journal. Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters August 16 1920

I shall close this review with a discussion of the views of Enrico Ferri whose labours in the field of Criminology may be compared to those of Herbert Spencer in the field of Biology and Sociology and which culminated in what is well-known as the system of Synthetic Philosophy. [...] Without entering into a metaphysical discussion of the relation of matter and mind or of the doctrine of psycho-physical parallelism it may be safely asserted as a matter of common experience that the physical condition of the individual to a great extent determines his psychic condition : Dr. [...] It is a matter of common experience that even in the case of the same idividual the same stimuli at different times evoke very different responses according to the condition of the nervous system. [...] The Rowlatt committee after a patient investigation into the causes of political crime of Bengal found that one of the chief causes was the economic discontent amongst the educated middle class of the community. [...] The true test of the validity of the plea of autrefois acquit is not so much whether the facts are the same in the both trials ac whether the acquittal on the first indictment necessarily involves an acquittal on the second.