Policing the prostate
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More from Hansard, this time from a debate on penal policy in the Criminal Justice Bill on 1 December 1938. Crime has a totaly unexpected cause...
An order was read to resume an Adjourned Debate.
8.29pm Mr Errington rose.
“I agree that it would be a mistake to divest the prisons of all outside assistance in regard to these medical matters. Anyone who has had the opportunity of practising in the criminal courts has heard time after time High Court judges talk about the difficulties they have with cases which are obviously of a mental character. A typical example is a case of prostatic trouble, a purely physical condition which often results in crime. This, I hope, will be the starting point for great administrative progress and development in this direction. In that connection I should like to support what the Lord Advocate said as to the discrimination which must be used in regard to prisoners and inmates of these various institutions.
Criminality and the prostate? Who knew?
