Identity, Crime and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England

AvD. Rabin

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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During the eighteenth century English defendants, victims, witnesses, judges, and jurors spoke a language of the mind. Inside the courtroom the language of excuse reshaped crimes and punishments, signalling a shift in the age-old negotiation of mitigation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-01-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:332 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349517169

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DANA RABIN is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the history of early modern Britain with an emphasis on law, gender, emotion, and identity and is the author of "Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century English Criminal Trials, 1730-1800".

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- '[Rabin] give[s] weight to abstractions like 'sensibility' as actual forces in the courtroom and in the reform movement.' Paul Baines, Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol.42, no.1, 2008

Innehållsförteckning

Crime, Culture, and the Self 'Of Persons Capable of Committing Crimes': Pleas of Mental Distress in the Eighteenth-Century Courtroom Old Excuses, New Meanings: "Temporary Frenzy," Necessity, Passion, and Compulsion Bodies of Evidence, States of Mind: Infanticide, Emotion, and Sensibility 'An indulgence given to great crimes'? Sensibility, Compassion, and Law Reform The End of Excuse? James Hadfield and the Insanity Plea From Self to Subject Bibliography