Lesion of the will: Medical resolve and criminal responsibility in Victorian insanity trials

Law and Society Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 425-458

  Eigen, Joel Peter ^a  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; EXPERT WITNESS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HISTORY; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MENTAL DISEASE; OFFENDER; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CRIMINALS; EXPERT TESTIMONY; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; INSANITY DEFENSE; JUDICIAL ROLE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 0033475109     PISSN: 00239216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3115170     Document Type: Article

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