Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law Evans Catherine L.
Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law Evans Catherine L. Unsound Empire analyzes the history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth-century British Empire through…
Specifikacia Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law Evans Catherine L.
Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law Evans Catherine L.
Unsound Empire analyzes the history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth-century British Empire through detailed accounts of homicide cases. While British common law was flexible, it had a breaking point, and controversies involving responsibility and insanity challenged judges to determine how many of the emerging ideas about criminality, race, ethnology, and the mind the law could Catherine Evans explores changing understandings of insanity and their consequences for the principle that only intentional, sane, blameworthy acts deserved punishment.