Material Category

Physical Audio

Type of Work

1/4 inch audio tape

Description

This audio recording is of one of a series of sessions held at The New School, entitled: "American Cities: Law, Survival and the Administration of Justice." This recording contains the introduction to the psychiatry and law session, and the address of the first speaker, New School Professor of Sociology Ernest Van Den Haag. Attorney Joseph Lobenthal introduces the panelists, reviews the question of the proper role of psychiatrists in the courtroom, and introduces Van Den Haag, who speaks at 6:57. Van Den Haag argues that psychiatrists have no role in the courtroom and that their recommendations in the judgments and sentencing of defendants amount to disguised moral judgments. According to Van Den Haag, the primary purpose of criminal punishment is not rehabilitation, but deterrence, and the attribution of crime rates to levels of poverty has not shown a valid correlation, but rather relates to the rational social cost of committing a crime.

Date

November 3 1971

Related people

New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) (producer)
Ernest Van Den Haag (speaker)
Joseph S. Lobenthal, Jr. (moderator)

Inscription

Reel # 1 Introduction Mr. Gallent 1st Speaker Van Den Haag Speed 7 1/2 IPS (container)

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ (copyrighted)

Location

box mixed nav_3

Identifier

NS070212_000028

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