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Author Loughnan, Arlie, author.

Title Manifest madness : mental incapacity in the criminal law / Arlie Loughran
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 282 pages)
Series Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice
Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
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
Crime
Criminal law
Criminal responsibility
Justice
Legal doctrines
Mental illness
Mental incapacity
Mental order
Normality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed July 19, 2016)
Subject Mentally ill offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England
Mentally ill offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Wales
Criminal liability -- England
Criminal liability -- Wales
Insanity (Law) -- England
Insanity (Law) -- Wales
Mental illness.
Mentally Ill Persons -- legislation & jurisprudence
Mental Competency -- legislation & jurisprudence
Mental Disorders
mental disorders.
Criminal justice law.
Criminal law and procedure.
Criminal or forensic psychology.
Criminal procedure.
Jurisprudence and general issues.
Law.
Laws of Specific jurisdictions.
Legal history.
Medicine.
Other branches of medicine.
Psychiatry.
Psychology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Mental illness
Criminal liability
Insanity (Law)
Mentally ill offenders -- Legal status, laws, etc.
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject England
Wales
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191738883
0191738883
9781283581042
1283581043
9780191627552
0191627550