Arlie Loughnan

Manifest Madness

Mental Incapacity in the Criminal Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together previously disparate discussions on criminal responsibility from law, psychology, and philosophy, this book provides a close study of mental incapacity defences, tracing their development through historical cases to the modern era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199698592
• ISBN-10: 0199698597
• Artikelnr.: 35482896

Autorenporträt

Dr Arlie Loughnan is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney. Her research concerns criminal law and the criminal justice system, with a focus on the relationship between legal doctrines, practices, institutions, and knowledge. Her particular interests are criminal responsibility and non-responsibility, the interaction of legal and expert medical knowledges and the historical development of the criminal law. Dr Loughnan holds a PhD from LSE and an LLM from NYU Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I
* 1: The Terrain of Mental Incapacity in Criminal Law
* 2: Putting Mental Incapacity Together Again
* 3: 'Manifest Madness': The Intersection of 'Madness' and Crime
* Part II
* 4: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Unfitness to Plead and
Infancy
* 5: Incapacity and Disability: The Exculpatory Doctrines of Insanity
and Automatism
* 6: Knowing and Proving Exculpatory Mental Incapacity
* Part III
* 7: 'Since the Days of Noah': The Law of Intoxicated Offending
* 8: Gender, 'Madness', and Crime: The Doctrine of Infanticide
* 9: Differences of Degree and Differences of Kind: Diminished
Responsibility
* Bibliography