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Author : Austin Sarat,Martha Merrill Umphrey,Lawrence Douglas,Martha Umphrey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472022090
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Author : Charles Patrick Ewing
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0198043694
The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily on lengthy testimony by expert psychologists and psychiatrists. Several of them played a major role in shaping the criminal justice system as we know it today. In this book, Ewing skillfully conveys the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. For the legal or psychological professional, as well as the interested reader, Insanity will take you into the minds of some of the most incomprehensible murderers of our age.
Author : Wendy Chan,Dorothy E. Chunn,Robert Menzies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135311162
This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling women's lives.
Author : Arlie Loughnan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199698592
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.
Author : James Moran
Publisher : Social Histories of Medicine M
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : LAW
ISBN : 1526133032
This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation. This body of law, established and developed over a five hundred year period, greatly influenced how those from England's propertied classes understood and responded to madness. Moreover, the civil law governing the response to madness in England was successfully exported into several of its colonies, including New Jersey. Drawing on a well-preserved and rare collection of trials in lunacy in New Jersey, this book reveals the important ties of civil law, local custom and perceptions of madness in transatlantic perspectives. This book will be highly relevant to scholars interested in law, medicine, psychiatry and madness studies, as well as contemporary issues in mental capacity and guardianship.
Author : Paul F. Campos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Culture and law
ISBN : 019771966X
The author of this text argues that the American worship of law and legality can at times be so pathological that it comes to resemble a type of legal madness, or "jurismania". He concludes that much of the "rule of law" is simply culturally sanctioned obsessive-compulsive behaviour.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307833105
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Author : Andrea Daley,Lucy Costa,Peter Beresford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781442629974
Madness, Violence, and Power: A Critical Collection disengages from the common forms of discussion about violence related to mental health service users and survivors which position those users or survivors as more likely to enact violence or become victims of violence. Instead, this book seeks to broaden understandings of violence manifest in the lives of mental health service users/survivors, 'push' current considerations to explore the impacts of systems and institutions that manage 'abnormality', and to create and foster space to explore the role of our own communities in justice and accountability dialogues. This critical collection constitutes an integral contribution to critical scholarship on violence and mental illness by addressing a gap in the existing literature by broadening the "violence lens," and inviting an interdisciplinary conversation that is not narrowly biomedical and neuro-scientific.
Author : Paul F. Campos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195351378
In Jurismania, Paul Campos asserts that our legal system is beginning to exhibit symptoms of serious mental illness. Trials and appeals that stretch out for years and cost millions, 100 page appellate court opinions, 1,000 page statutes before which even lawyers tremble with fear, and a public that grows more litigious every day all testify to a judicial overkill that borders on obsessive-compulsive disorder. Campos locates the source of such madness, paradoxically, in our worship of reason and the resulting belief that all problems are amenable to legal solutions. In insightful discussions of a wide range of cases, from NCAA regulations of student-athletes to the Simpson trial, from our most intractable social disputes over abortion and physician-assisted suicide to the war on drugs and the increasingly fastidious attempts to regulate behavior in public spaces, Campos shows that the mania for more law exacerbates the very problems it seeks to remedy. In his final chapter, the author calls instead for a humbling recognition of the limits of reason and a much more modest role for our legal system. Clearly written and laced with a delicious wit, Jurismania gives us a CAT-scan of the American legal mind at work. It reveals not only that the patient is even worse off than we imagined, but also clarifies the many reasons why.
Author : Norval Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Competency to stand trial
ISBN : OCLC:1150284630
Author : Wendy Chan,Robert Menzies
Publisher : Routledge Cavendish
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 113816318X
This book explores, for the first time in an edited collection, the intersection of three key research areas - women, madness and the law - and advances the debates on how law and the 'psy' sciences play a critical role in regulating and controlling women's lives.
Author : Peter Goodrich,Katrin Trüstedt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487539825
Laws of Transgression offers multiple perspectives on the story of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911), a chamber president of the German Supreme Court who was institutionalized after claiming God had communicated with him, desiring to make him into a woman. Schreber was not only a successful judge, but was also to become the author of one of the most commented upon texts in psychiatric literature, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Published in 1903, this remarkable work documented Schreber’s visions, desires, jurisprudence, and theology. Far from ending the judge’s legal investments, it manifested an intensification of engagement with the law in the attempt to prove that becoming a woman did not deprive the judge of legal competence. Schreber’s experience of bodily change and his account of interior life has been the subject of more than a century of psychoanalytic and medical scrutiny. With the contemporary trans turn, interest in the judge’s desire to become a woman has intensified. In Laws of Transgression, Peter Goodrich, Katrin Trüstedt, and contributing authors set out to unfold Schreber’s complex relation to the law. The collection revisits and rediscovers the Memoirs, not only in its juridical and political implications, but as a transgressional text that has challenged law and heteronormativity.
Author : Norval Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1984-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226539083
Discusses the criminal responsibility of the mentally ill, looks at involuntary conduct, and argues that mental illness should affect sentencing, but not determine guilt or innocence
Author : Joshua Burgess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0259999148
Excerpt from The Medical and Legal Relations of Madness: Showing a Cellular Theory of Mind, and of Nerve Force, and Also of Vegetative Vital ForceThis inquiry will aim to bring the question within the rules of induction which guide other inquiries, and to show that diseased affections of the mind, and of the senses, may be traced to injury or decay, or to an abnormal condition of the organic structures.The relation of madness with jurisprudence has hitherto been as intimate as with medicine; but inflexible legal codes, adapted to the interests of property and of material things, have proved inadequate to cope with the laws of physiology and life; and jurisprudence badly comprehends the interests of the lunatic.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas Maeder
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015009282081
Studies the insanity defense including its history, its emotional and intellectual justification, legal and medical difficulties of administration, objections to it, and solutions that have been proposed.
