Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 282 pages) |
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Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice |
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Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
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Contents |
The terrain of mental incapacity in criminal law -- Putting mental incapacity together again -- 'Manifest madness' : the intersection of 'madness' and crime -- Dynamics of inclusion and exclusion : unfitness to plead and infancy -- Incapacity and disability : the exculpatory doctrines of insanity and automatism -- Knowing and proving exculpatory mental incapacity -- 'Since the days of Noah" : the law of intoxicated offending -- Gender, 'madness', and crime : the doctrine of infanticide -- Difference of degree and difference of kind : diminished responsibility |
Summary |
Understanding mental incapacity in criminal law is notoriously difficult; it involves tracing overlapping and interlocking legal doctrines, current and past practices of evidence and proof, and also medical and social understandings of mental illness and incapacity. With its focus on the complex interaction of legal doctrines and practices relating to mental incapacity and knowledge - both expert and non-expert - of it, this book offers a fresh perspective on this topic |
Analysis |
Abnormality |
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Crime |
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Criminal law |
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Criminal responsibility |
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Justice |
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Legal doctrines |
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Mental illness |
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Mental incapacity |
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Mental order |
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Normality |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed July 19, 2016) |
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Mentally ill offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England
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Mentally ill offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Wales
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Criminal liability -- England
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Criminal liability -- Wales
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Insanity (Law) -- England
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Insanity (Law) -- Wales
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Mental illness.
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Mentally Ill Persons -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Mental Competency -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Mental Disorders
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mental disorders.
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Criminal justice law.
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Criminal law and procedure.
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Criminal or forensic psychology.
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Criminal procedure.
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Jurisprudence and general issues.
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Law.
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Laws of Specific jurisdictions.
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Legal history.
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Medicine.
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Other branches of medicine.
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Psychiatry.
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Psychology.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Mental illness
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Criminal liability
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Insanity (Law)
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Mentally ill offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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SUBJECT |
United Kingdom |
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England
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Wales
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191738883 |
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0191738883 |
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9781283581042 |
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1283581043 |
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9780191627552 |
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0191627550 |
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