Title: Manifest madness
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.
Subjects: Insanity (Law), Psychiatry, Legal history, Criminal or forensic psychology, Criminal justice law, Criminal procedure, Criminal law, Mental illness, Criminal liability, Mentally ill offenders, Legal status, laws