Insanity

Insanity

Author: Charles Patrick Ewing

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-04-07

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0198043694

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The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily on lengthy testimony by expert psychologists and psychiatrists. Several of them played a major role in shaping the criminal justice system as we know it today. In this book, Ewing skillfully conveys the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. For the legal or psychological professional, as well as the interested reader, Insanity will take you into the minds of some of the most incomprehensible murderers of our age.


Madness in Medieval Law and Custom

Madness in Medieval Law and Custom

Author: Wendy Turner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-09-24

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9004187499

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This essay collection examines aspects of mental impairment from a variety of angles to unearth medieval perspectives on mental affliction. This volume on madness in the Middle Ages elucidates how medieval society conceptualized mental afflictions, especially in law and culture.


Manifest Madness

Manifest Madness

Author: Arlie Loughnan

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0199698597

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Bringing together previously disparate discussions on criminal responsibility from law, psychology, and philosophy, this book provides a close study of mental incapacity defences, tracing their development through historical cases to the modern era.


Unsound Empire

Unsound Empire

Author: Catherine L. Evans

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0300242743

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A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials Unsound Empire is a history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth-century British Empire told through detailed accounts of homicide cases across three continents. If a defendant in a murder trial was going to hang, he or she had to deserve it. Establishing the mental element of guilt--criminal responsibility--transformed state violence into law. And yet, to the consternation of officials in Britain and beyond, experts in new scientific fields posited that insanity was widespread and growing, and evolutionary theories suggested that wide swaths of humanity lacked the self-control and understanding that common law demanded. Could it be fair to punish mentally ill or allegedly "uncivilized" people? Could British civilization survive if killers avoided the noose?


Madness and the Criminal Law

Madness and the Criminal Law

Author: Norval Morris

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 9780226539072

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Discusses the criminal responsibility of the mentally ill, looks at involuntary conduct, and argues that mental illness should affect sentencing, but not determine guilt or innocence


Women, Madness and the Law

Women, Madness and the Law

Author: Wendy Chan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1135311161

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This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling women's lives.


Madness and Civilization

Madness and Civilization

Author: Michel Foucault

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-01-30

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0307833100

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Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.


Madness on trial

Madness on trial

Author: James Moran

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-05-13

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1526133059

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This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey.


Law's Madness

Law's Madness

Author: Austin Sarat

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2009-04-21

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0472022091

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DIVA provocative collection of essays that reveals how the law takes its definition from what it excludes /div


Of Murder and Madness

Of Murder and Madness

Author: Gerry Spence

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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A KILLER WITHOUT REDEMPTION... In broad daylight in the backwater of Rawlins, Wyoming, Joe Esquibel shot his wife right between the eyes in front of eight witnesses, including his own children and a deputy sheriff with his gun drawn. It seemed an indefensible case of premeditated murder by a remorseless killer. A crime that cried out for the death penalty. A LAWYER WHO WOULDN'T GIVE UP... Enter Gerry Spence, the controversial, nationally renowned defense lawyer who'd never lost a case. Undeterred by the odds against him, and armed with awesome powers of persuasion, he turned the trial into an electrifying legal battle to save a man from execution. For seven years, through three trials, he fought with everything he had, until, incredibly, he achieved the impossible: Esquibel was acquitted by reason of insanity. OF MURDER AND MADNESS... With riveting detail, Gerry Spence takes you behind the scenes of an unforgettable true-life courtroom drama-- and inside the mind of a murderer. It is a fascinating, unvarnished look at the wheelings and dealings that go on in the courtroom...and a chilling odyssey into the darkness of the human soul.