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Disorder in the Court : Morality, Myth, and the Insanity Defense /
"The insanity defense is considered one of the most controversial, most misunderstood, and least straightforward subjects in the American legal system. Disorder in the Court: Morality, Myth, and the Insanity Defense traces the US legal standards for the insanity defense as they have evolved fro...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
University of Alabama Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reasoning with Madness; 1. Framing the Issue: What Rhetoric Can Offer to the Conversation; 2. A Brief History of Western Thought on Mental Illness and Its Relevance to the Law; 3. Knowing Right from Wrong: The Trial of Daniel McNaughtan; 4. Late Nineteenth-Century Insanity Defense Jurisprudence: Parsons, Davis, and the "Irresistible Impulse" Test; 5. Mid-Twentieth-Century Insanity Defense Jurisprudence: Durham v. United States and the "Product" Test.
- 6. Late Twentieth-Century Insanity Defense Jurisprudence: The Trial of John Hinckley Jr. and the Insanity Defense Reform ActConclusion. The Insanity Defense Since Hinckley; Appendix 1. Parsons v. State; Appendix 2. Davis v. United States; Appendix 3. Durham v. United States; Appendix 4. Hinckley Letter to Jodie Foster; Notes; Bibliography; Index.