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Concept and Basis of Criminal Responsibility

The upheaval to the political, economic and social setting of the people of this country which has occurred within the past decade or so—and more particularly within the past three years—has made many people call not only for the enlargement of the scope of the criminal law and criminal responsibility but also for harsher and what they regard as more deterrent punishment. Not only in private conversations but also in the local press have people made suggestions with all earnestness that capital punishment should be made available for many more offences, that executions of persons convicted of …