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Kinberg, Olof Vilhelm (1873 - 1960)
OM DET RÄTTSLIGA FÖRFARINGSSÄTTET I SVERIGE RÖRANDE FÖR BROTT TILLTALADE PERSONER AV TVIVELAKTIG SINNESBESKAFFENHET SAMT OM BEHANDLINGEN AV KRIMINELLA SINNESSJUKA.
Stockholm, 1908.
8vo. [4], 312, VIII pp. Tables in the text.

Entirely uncut, original printed wrappers.

$ 39

First edition. Doctoral thesis on forensic psychiatry, criminal justice, and treatment of the insane criminal. "Olof Kinberg [1873-1960], for many years Sweden's most prominent criminologist, was among other things instructor in forensic psychiatry bearing the title Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm 1920-39. He has been considered the founder of Swedish forensic psychiatry. Through his instruction and many publications he exercised a powerful influence in many areas of psychiatry, forensic psychiatry and criminology"(Werlinder).

* H. Werlinder, Psychopathy: a history of the concepts, p. 119.

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