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Barbara Wootton

“Two hundred years ago we made a practice of treating lunatics as criminals. Nowadays we are more inclined to treat criminals as lunatics.”
- Barbara Wootton,
- in The Observer (1963)

Barbara Wootton, English sociologist, criminologist

(1897 - 1988)

Full name: Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger, CH.