Crime, Alcoholism, and the Symptoms of Disease
- 7 April 1966
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 274 (14) , 789-790
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196604072741409
Abstract
THE great social changes of the 1960's — the war on poverty, the re-examination of criminal law and procedure and the surge of political force in minority groups – find another expression in the ruling of a high federal court that a patient with chronic alcoholism cannot be punished criminally for public drunkenness.In the case, Driver v. Hinnant,1 the defendant, Joe B. Driver, was a typical, skid-row alcoholic. He had been sentenced in a North Carolina State Court to two years in jail as a more than three-times repeater. Actually, he had been convicted of public intoxication over . . .Keywords
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