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Guilty But Insane
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Author : Samantha Walton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015
Guilty But Insane written by Samantha Walton and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Fiction categories.
Guilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind as they related to the commission, the investigation, and the punishment of crime. Under the lens of psychology, the detective novel is revealed as a site for the negotiation of competing interpretations of sanity and insanity. An unexplored depth and subtlety is revealed in detective novels that address major controversies in legal and psychiatric theory and practice, while significant resonances with specific concerns of modernist fiction come into focus for the first time. During the interwar years, proponents of competing psychological schools challenged legal concepts of responsibility and free will. In response, golden age writers began to reflect on the genre's promise to accomplish true and just solutions in a social order in which the relationship between law and justice was being problematized on several fronts. By making connections between high modernism and popular culture, and by tracing the impact of psychological discourses across a range of different cultural outputs, this book makes a persuasive case for reading detective fiction historically. It aims to demonstrate the richness of these texts and their value for scholarship, not only as historical documents or residues of discourse, but as literary texts which challenge, subvert, toy with and test the prevailing values and prejudices of interwar Britain.
Guilty But Insane
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Author : James W. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd
Release Date : 2016-06-03
Guilty But Insane written by James W. Taylor and has been published by Mercier Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-03 with History categories.
Captain J.C. Bowen-Colthurst, originally from Cork, served with the British Army in the Boer War, in Tibet and in the Great War. Having been wounded, he returned to Ireland and was caught up in the 1916 rebellion where he was responsible for the deaths of six unarmed civilians, including the pacifist Francis Sheehy Skeffington. The resulting outrage was one of the key factors in turning the tide of Irish public opinion towards independence. Having been tried for murder, he was deemed 'guilty but insane' and spent eighteen months in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum before being released under medical supervision for another year. He was then allowed to travel to Canada on condition that he not return to Ireland. This has been portrayed as a perversion of justice perpetrated by the British authorities, but Taylor's unprecedented access to both army and Bowen-Colthurst's personal papers have revealed that he was probably suffering from what we now know as PTSD. This book corrects many published errors, debunks some myths and reveals the personal side to a much-maligned historical character. The author has also worked with the family of both Bowen-Colthurst and Sheehy Skeffington, who have praised his unbiased research.
Talking With Psychopaths And Savages Guilty But Insane
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Author : Christopher Berry-Dee
language : en
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-04
Talking With Psychopaths And Savages Guilty But Insane written by Christopher Berry-Dee and has been published by Kings Road Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-04 with True Crime categories.
The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complicated defence, and its origins in modern law lie with what are called the 'M'Naghten Rules' of 1843, formulated by British judges as a jury instruction in cases where a plea of insanity had been entered. Daniel M'Naghten shot and killed one Edward Drummond, believing him to be the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, and was acquitted on the grounds of insanity, and the M'Naghten Rules still exert considerable influence over defences today. Clearly a plea of insanity in murder cases is of critical importance when the death penalty is still applied, and even today it may still be the difference between a life sentence in a high-security prison, or an indeterminate one in a secure psychiatric hospital. Meanwhile, 27 of the USA's 50 states have retained or readopted the death penalty, and at least 54 other countries, including China, Russia, India, Iran and Saudi Arabia, also retain it. Naturally, a criminal who was liable to swing for murder could, and sometimes did, make every attempt to appear insane, and this book examines some of these cases, as well as trials in which the accused was indeed judged to be insane. The failure rate is high; of seven American serial killers who deployed the defence in their trials, only two were successful, ending their days in secure psychiatric facilities; two were executed, and the other three either died or were killed while serving full-life sentences, or are still in gaol.
The Insanity Defense
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Author : Richard Moran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Insanity Defense written by Richard Moran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Criminal intent categories.
Guilty But Insane
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Author : Peter Clyne
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Release Date : 1973
Guilty But Insane written by Peter Clyne and has been published by Thomas Nelson Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Law categories.
The Guilty But Mentally Ill Verdict
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Guilty But Mentally Ill Verdict written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Insanity (Law) categories.
Insanity
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Author : Charles Patrick Ewing
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-07
Insanity written by Charles Patrick Ewing and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-07 with Psychology categories.
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.
International Handbook On Psychopathic Disorders And The Law
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Author : Alan R. Felthous
language : en
Publisher: LibreDigital
Release Date : 2007
International Handbook On Psychopathic Disorders And The Law written by Alan R. Felthous and has been published by LibreDigital this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Psychology categories.
Reflecting the work of an international panel of experts, the International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law offers an in-depth and multidisciplinary look at key aspects of the development and etiology of psychopathic disorders, current methods of intervention, treatment and management, and how these disorders impact decision making in civil and criminal law.
The Insanity Defense
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Author : Mark D. White
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-01-23
The Insanity Defense written by Mark D. White and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-23 with Law categories.
How often is the defense of insanity or temporary insanity for accused criminals valid—or is it ever legitimate? This unique work presents multidisciplinary viewpoints that explain, support, and critique the insanity defense as it stands. What is the role of "the insanity defense" as a legal excuse? How does U.S. law handle criminal trials where the defendant pleads insanity, and how does our legal system's treatment differ from those of other countries or cultures? How are insanity defenses used, and how successful are these defenses for the accused? What are the costs of incarceration versus psychiatric treatment and confinement? This book presents a range of expert viewpoints on the insanity defense, exposing common myths; investigating its effectiveness and place in our legal system through history, case studies, and comparative analysis; and supplying perspectives from the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and neuroscience. The content also addresses the ramifications of declaring citizens insane or incapacitated and examines trials that involved pleas of insanity and temporary insanity.
Psychological Evaluations For The Courts Third Edition
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Author : Gary B. Melton
language : en
Publisher: Guilford Press
Release Date : 2007-09-18
Psychological Evaluations For The Courts Third Edition written by Gary B. Melton and has been published by Guilford Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-18 with Psychology categories.
This is the definitive reference and text for both mental health and legal professionals. The authors offer a uniquely comprehensive discussion of the legal and clinical contexts of forensic assessment, along with best-practice guidelines for participating effectively and ethically in a wide range of criminal and civil proceedings. Presented are findings, instruments, and procedures related to criminal and civil competencies, civil commitment, sentencing, personal injury claims, antidiscrimination laws, child custody, juvenile justice, and more.