Show CRIMINALISTS J NOW IN SESSION N Nt t Psychic Element in Crime the Topic Under Discussion PROF VON MAYERS OPINION 4 I OP THE IN m RUSSIAN 1 Correspondence of ot the Associated Press NT PETERSBURG Sept 19 The ST psychic element in crime appears to be the peg pe upon which all aU aUthe the noteworthy utterances of or the ninth congress of ot the International Society ot of Criminalists now Bitting sitting In this city are going to be hung This society was founded on the Initiative of Prof Franz von List LIzt of or Berlin B rUn and he Is la president pr of ot the he present congress Prof yon von n of ot Germany offered the fol tol following lowing thesis First The criminal law should con contain tain tam a definition of ot an attempt Second Such a definition must be bec emancipated c an ip tod from the traditional no notion tion of at the beginning of execution Third An attempt is punishable ely enly when expressly Jy determined by bylaw byla bylaw law la Fourth The punishment of ot at attempts attempts tempts should be ID in principle the same as ag that of ot completed crime with the reservation n a limited judicial power POW r of remIs or I n penitence for tor an a at attempted attempted tempted crime is shown punishment Is to bo be e remitted Another speaker put the case thus thuel thusA thusA thuelA A child at play may start a con conflagration the desperate passions of ofa ofa ofa a c od criminal may fail tall shall we guillotine the child and let the criminal still prey on society un an until antil til he succeeds in some villainy The congress by a large majority adopted the following conclusions I I which Mch were formulated by Profs Prots von List LIzt and Von Hamor of oC Amsterdam First Nobody is punishable for the consequences of or his acts except In so far taru as he could have foreseen or pre prevented prevented prevented vented them Second As tt t te the question of at corn com complicity c m the law Jaw should drop all nil doc doctrinaire doctrinaire distinctions between those who have participated in the crime itself and confine Itself to indicating the modes of participation that it will con consider eider sider as such Third The question of ot attempt willI will remain the order of ot the day of at atthe the society In welcoming the delegates Minis Minister Minister ter of ot Justice JU made the tot fol following lowing 1011 statement The publication of ot a new criminal law book is imminent in Russia RusIa The council of 01 the empire has haJI recently ree re rea reed rea ed a pic O A t for t foi t the j p re To Tos s e cd 1 ri Important change nave have been beet made ade in our penitentiary penitential system Suf Sut Suffice fice flee it to mention the tb abolition ot of de deportation deportation by judgment of ot court to Siberia the transfer of ot prison man management management from the ministry of or the in interior that that of ot Justice the reform of ot our prison system especially the prison labor the establishment of cor correctional correctional institutions and the preliminary preliminary preliminary nary work in the matter of oC conditional sentences |