Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference - A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal Court

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Oxford, 2020) issued under title: The mind on trial: mental illness and capital punishment in America's highest execution state.

List of contents

Introduction: Introduction

1. Heredity, Environment, and the Doctrine of Civilization

2. Biology, Insanity, and the Criminal Courts

3. Psychoanalysis, the Insanity Defense, and the Family-Centered Ideology

4. Psychoanalysis and the Construction of the Criminal Psychopath

5. The "New" Scientific Psychiatry, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Future Dangerousness

6. The Abused and Neglected as a "Continuing Threat to Society"

Epilogue: Forensic Psychiatry and Trial Practices in the Twenty-First Century

About the author

Chloé Deambrogio is a Junior Research Fellow in Law at Merton College, Oxford. Her research sits at the intersection of critical legal theory, death penalty scholarship, mental disability law, and race and gender studies.

Product details

• Authors: Chloe Deambrogio, Chloé Deambrogio
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781503630321
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3032-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law