Lawrie Reznek

Evil or Ill? (eBook, PDF)

Justifying the Insanity Defence

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Produktbeschreibung

Lawrie Reznek addresses these questions and more in his controversial investigation of the insanity defense in Evil or Ill? Drawing from countless intriguing case examples, he aims to understand the concept of an excuse, and explains why the law excuses certain actions and not others. In his easily accessible and elegant style, he explains that in law, there exists two excuses derived from Aristotle: the excuses of ignorance and compulsion. Reznek, however proposes a third excuse - the excuse of character change. In introducing this third excuse, Reznek raises a controversial possibility - the abolition of the insanity defence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134705788
• Artikelnr.: 38266880

Autorenporträt

Lawrie Reznek is both a trained philosopher and psychiatrist. He teaches psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is also the author of The Nature of Disease (Routledge, 1987), The Medicine Men (Collins, 1990), and The Philosophical Defence of Psychiatry (Routledge, 1991).

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