Negotiating responsibility : law, murder, and states of mind
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Negotiating responsibility : law, murder, and states of mind
(Law and society series)
UBC Press, c2008
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-171) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Kimberly White examines how the idea of criminal responsibility was produced, organized, and legitimized in and through institutional structures such as remissions, trial, and post-trial procedures; identity politics of race, character, citizenship, and gender; and overlapping narratives of mind-state and capacity. She points to the subtle but deeply influential ways in which common sense about crime, punishment, criminality, and human nature shaped the boundaries of expert knowledge at every stage of the judicial process. Negotiating Responsibility provides an essential point of reference from which to evaluate current criminal law practices and law reform initiatives in Canada.
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 The Making and Mapping of Capital Murder Case Files
3 Criminological Thinking and Ways of "Knowing" the Criminal
4 Negotiating Responsibility in Law's "Marketplace": Beyond the Insanity Defence
5 The Racialization of Criminal Responsibility
6 Murder between "Wives" and "Husbands"
7 Concluding Thoughts
Appendices
Notes
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