Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England

✍ Scribed by Dana Y. Rabin (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 245
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Crime, Culture, and the Self....Pages 1-21
‘Of the Persons Capable of Committing Crimes’: Pleas of Mental Distress in the Eighteenth-Century Courtroom....Pages 22-60
Old Excuses, New Meanings: ‘Temporary Phrenzy,’ Necessity, Passion, and Compulsion....Pages 61-94
Bodies of Evidence, States of Mind: Infanticide, Emotion, and Sensibility....Pages 95-110
‘An indulgence given to great crimes’? Sensibility, Compassion, and Law Reform....Pages 111-141
The End of Excuse? James Hadfield and the Insanity Plea....Pages 142-163
From Self to Subject....Pages 164-169
Back Matter....Pages 170-234

✦ Subjects

History of Britain and Ireland; Social History; Cultural History; Modern History

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