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Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London
Joel Peter Eigen
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Description for Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London
Hardback. Combining the colorful intrigue of courtroom drama and the keen insights of social history, Unconscious Crime depicts Victorian England's legal and medical cultures confronting a new understanding of human behavior, and provocatively suggests these trials represent the earliest incarnation of double consciousness and multiple personality disorder. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBTB; JKVQ; MBX; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801874284
SKU
V9780801874284
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About Joel Peter Eigen
Joel Peter Eigen is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College and visiting scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge. His previous book, Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court, won the 1997 Mannfred S. Guttmacher Award, cosponsored by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Law and Psychiatry.
Reviews for Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London
Riveting... A fascinating, if grim, analysis of an overlooked aspect of Victorian medico-legal history. Times Literary Supplement Eigen has interwoven... complex psychological, legal, and social issues in a fabric of compelling historical events, addressing timeless questions of the self, mind, memory, and what it means to be conscious or, simply, to be.
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