Unconscious crime : mental absence and criminal responsibility in Victorian London /
"In Unconscious Crime, Joel Peter Eigen explores cases in which defendants did not conform to the Victorian legal system's existing definitions of insanity yet displayed compelling evidence of mental aberration. They were - or claimed to be - "missing," "absent," or &qu...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2003.
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| Online-Zugang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=124425 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.