TY - JOUR PY - 1976// TI - Motivation, crime, and cultural change: a review of fifteen years experience in the law courts JO - Papua and New Guinea medical journal A1 - Burton-Bradley, B. G. SP - 166 EP - 171 VL - 18 IS - 3 N2 - 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.
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