Unconscious Crime - Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

Informationen zum Autor Joel Peter Eigen (LANCASTER, PA) is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College and Principal Fellow (Honorary) at the University of Melbourne. Mad-Doctors in the Dock is the final volume in his trilogy examining the insanity defense in the British courtroom. The first two volumes are Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court and Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London. Klappentext A sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a "morally vacant" juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a "lesion of the will"; a man on trial for assault undergoes a profound personality change and becomes a wild and delusional "alter." These people are not characters from a mystery novel but rather mid-nineteenth-century defendants on trial in London's Old Bailey. In" Zusammenfassung Combining the colorful intrigue of courtroom drama and the keen insights of social history! Unconscious Crime depicts Victorian England's legal and medical cultures confronting a new understanding of human behavior! and provocatively suggests these trials represent the earliest incarnation of double consciousness and multiple personality disorder.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Peter Eigen, Joel Peter (Professor Eigen
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.2004
• EAN: 9780801874284
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7428-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; European History, LAW / Mental Health, Psychology, MEDICAL / History, PSYCHOLOGY / Forensic Psychology, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), History of Medicine, Criminal or forensic psychology, TRUE CRIME / Historical, Mental Health Law