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Unconscious Crime : Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London
Unconscious Crime Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London
Author: Joel Peter Eigen
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 nove...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801874284
ISBN-10: 0801874289
Publication Date: 10/14/2003
Pages: 248
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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