Unsound Empire - Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law

Through homicide cases, Catherine Evans explores insanity in the nineteenth-century British Empire and the history of criminal responsibility. British common law established that only sane, blameworthy acts deserved punishment, but emerging ideas about criminality, race, ethnology, and the mind challenged the principles of justice in the British Empire.

About the author

Catherine Evans is assistant professor at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto.

Summary

A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials

Product details

• Authors: Catherine L. Evans
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780300242744
• ISBN: 978-0-300-24274-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, LAW / Mental Health, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Legal History, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Mental Health Law