Lawrie Reznek

Evil or Ill?

Justifying the Insanity Defence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Was the serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer an evil man responsible for his murders? Or was he an innocent victim of psychiatric illness? Lawrie Reznek addresses these questions and more in his controve rsial investigation of the insanity defence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 142mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780415166997
• ISBN-10: 0415166993
• Artikelnr.: 22371302

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 A History of Criminal Responsibility
Chapter 2 A Taxonomy of Defences
Chapter 3 Ignorance as an Excuse
Chapter 4 Compulsion as an Excuse
Chapter 5 Automatism as an Excuse
Chapter 6 The Justification of Excuses
Chapter 7 Causality as an Excuse
Chapter 8 The Reductionist Theory
Chapter 9 Irrationality as an Excuse
Chapter 10 The Concept of Disease
Chapter 11 Character Change as an Excuse
Chapter 12 The Clash of Paradigms
Chapter 13 The Insanity Defence in Practice
Conclusion