Manifest madness : mental incapacity in the criminal law / Arlie Loughran.
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 int...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 282 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199698592 0199698597 |