Insanity murder, madness, and the law

The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal...

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Tác giả chính: Ewing, Charles Patrick
Tác giả khác: Charles Patrick Ewing
Ngôn ngữ:Undetermined
English
Được phát hành: New York Oxford University Press 2008
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Tóm tắt:The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence...
Mô tả vật lý:188 p.
24 cm
số ISBN:019532613X
9780195326130