title: Motivation, crime, and cultural change: a review of fifteen years experience in the law courts.
abstract: The author's forensic experience among the different cultural groups of this country stress the doctor's twin obligations as physician as well as witness. Provisional definitions of psychiatric disorder and criminality in this context are given. The medicolegal aspects of cargo cult, customary land rights, and the incest taboo transgression are discussed, and suggestions made that the law can act as an educational force, as well as having a social control function, and that legislation could be prepared with this additional end in view.
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003469:Culture; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009042:Motivation; D009512:New Guinea; D012922:Social Change