The meaning was further refined into mental and moral imbecility.
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The concepts of " moral insanity ", " moral idiocy ", " and " moral imbecility ", led to the emerging field of eugenic criminology, which held that crime can be reduced by preventing " feeble-minded " people from reproducing.
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As stated by the historian F . A . Whitlock : " there [ is ] not the remotest resemblance between their examples [ Pinel's and Prichard's ] and what today would be classed as psychopathic personality . " However, Whitlock has suggested that the diagnosis gradually changed into moral imbecility over the turn of the century and that in turn transformed into something like the current concept of psychopathy.
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