Identity, crime, and legal responsibility in eighteenth-century England

著者

• Rabin, Dana Y.

書誌事項

Identity, crime, and legal responsibility in eighteenth-century England

Dana Y. Rabin

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

• : hardback

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-229) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

During the eighteenth century English defendants, victims, witnesses, judges, and jurors spoke a language of the mind. With their reputations or lives at stake, men and women presented their complex emotions and passions as grounds for acquittal or mitigation of punishment. Inside the courtroom the language of excuse reshaped crimes and punishments, signalling a shift in the age-old negotiation of mitigation. Outside the courtroom the language of the mind reflected society's preoccupation with questions of sensibility, responsibility, and the self.

目次

Crime, Culture, and the Self 'Of Persons Capable of Committing Crimes': Pleas of Mental Distress in the Eighteenth-Century Courtroom Old Excuses, New Meanings: "Temporary Frenzy," Necessity, Passion, and Compulsion Bodies of Evidence, States of Mind: Infanticide, Emotion, and Sensibility 'An indulgence given to great crimes'? Sensibility, Compassion, and Law Reform The End of Excuse? James Hadfield and the Insanity Plea From Self to Subject Bibliography

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA71262565
• ISBN:
  • 1403934444
• LCCN: 2004050533
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Basingstoke
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 234 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : KD7897
  • DC22 : 345.42/04
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Insanity -- Jurisprudence -- England -- History -- 18th century