RT Article
T1 Cultural Aspects of Criminal Responsibility
JF The journal of criminal law, criminology and police science
A1 Shulman, Harry Manuel
LA English
YR 1952
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866343335
AB The classical theory of jurisprudence that criminal responsibility is a matter of knowing right from wrong had its origin in a simpler society in which it was possible for an individual to be, in the words of Tarde, identical with his culture. Cultures were relatively consistent in their values, and the monolithic pressures of relatively uniform culture values concealed the fact to the philosopher that human behavior was no rational outcome of the awareness of right and wrong conduct, but a product of an equilibrium between the individual and his society, in which the struggle for individual and group survival determined means to ends
DO 10.2307/1139149