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- Title
ASSASSINS OF RULERS.
- Abstract
The article presents information on the assassins of rulers. The most dangerous criminals are the assassins of rulers. They may be sane; insane or partially insane, or simply monstrous criminals. They may be degenerates with certain peculiar traits, as instability, and the continual changing of their occupation and habitation. They are usually vain, irritable, impulsive and mystical and are easily influenced by surroundings. They are usually proud of their crime, protest with indignation if called insane and usually show great courage on the scaffold, clinging to their ideas or delusions until the end. Their most common characteristic is a want of mental balance or equilibrium, which may take various forms, as exaltation and mysticism. If circumstances be not favorable to its development, it may remain dormant and inoffensive. But if it finds in the events of the day, as wars, revolutions, political dissensions or extreme theories of sects; in publications or books inflaming the mind; if, in short, it finds a soil favorable to its development, it is liable to appear and sometimes culminate in most terrible crimes.
- Subjects
ASSASSINS; CRIMINAL behavior; CRIMINALS; MURDERERS; CRIME; PRISONERS
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1911, Vol 2, Issue 4, p505
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1133046