Manifest madness
Subtitle: mental incapacity in criminal law
By: Arlie Loughnan
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780199698592
Subjects: Insanity (Law)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index.