Unconscious Crime Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

Name: Unconscious Crime Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London
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ISBN: 9780801874284

ISBN-10: 0801874289

ISBN-13: 9780801874284

Edition: 2003

Authors: Joel Peter Eigen

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A sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a "morally vacant" juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a "lesion of the will"; an articulate and poised man on trial for assault who, while conducting his own defense, undergoes a profound personality change and becomes a wild and delusional "alter." These people are not characters from a mystery novelist's vivid imagination, but rather defendants who were tried at the Old Bailey, London's central criminal court, in the mid-nineteenth century. In Unconscious Crime, Joel Peter Eigen explores these and other cases in which defendants did not conform to any of the Victorian legal system's existing definitions of insanity yet displayed convincing…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/18/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Double Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century



"Do You Remember Cardiff?"



"I Mean She Was Quite Absent"



The Princess and the Cherry Juice



An Unconscious Poisoning



Crimes of an Automaton


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Index