Title: Negotiating responsibility : law, murder, and states of mind /
Authors: White, Kimbereley 1966-
Publisher: UBC Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Murder Canada History.; Criminal liability Canada History.; Insanity (Law) Canada History.; Forensic psychiatry Canada History.; Trials (Murder) Canada.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Making and Mapping of Capital Murder Case Files -- 3. Criminological Thinking and Ways of "Knowing" the Criminal -- 4. Negotiating Responsibility in Law's "Marketplace": Beyond the Insanity Defence -- 5. Racialization of Criminal Responsibility -- 6. Murder between "Wives" and "Husbands" -- 7. Concluding Thoughts -- Appendix A-1. Capital Case File Summary -- Appendix A-2. Demographic Profile and Principal Legal Features of Case Files -- Appendix B. Alphabetical List of Capital Case Files with Archival References.