Self-Made Madness
Subtitle: Rethinking Illness and Criminal Responsibility
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780754623328
Subjects: Abnormal psychology; Crime & criminology; Criminal law; Criminal or forensic psychology; Psychiatry; Mentally ill offenders; Jurisprudence; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; People with mental disabilitie; Criminal Law - General; Insanity; Criminal liability; People with mental disabilities and crime
First sentence: When the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald became mentally disordered, he wrote of her predicament to his daughter, Frances: How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's 'Loyal Opposition,' so to speak.