History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.471.4
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.471.4
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On the other hand there are some who go to the other extreme and propound that a so-called criminal act is mostly due to biological, physiological, pathological or sociological conditions, to the upbringing and environment of the person charged with crime. They favour determinism. The ancient Indian writers do not enter into these speculations. But when they said that regard must be paid to time and place and other considerations they were faintly conscious of or were groping towards the ideas of the 2nd school.