The Political Criminal

The political criminal is not necessarily guilty of an unsocial offence. He simply tries to over a certain political order which may itself be anti social. Lambroso calls the political criminal the true precursor of the progressive movement of humanity. The insane criminal really can no more be considered a criminal than a child, since he is mentally in the same condition as an infant or an animal. But on the whole, the sovereignty of justice still continues to punish criminally insane with the whole severity of its power.