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Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle

Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle

Harris, Ruth

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Historical Monographs

CriminologyFrench History

ISBN10: 0198229917
ISBN13: 9780198229919
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Sep 28 1989
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This is an interdisciplinary study of the debate on crime and madness in France between 1880 and 1914. Harris argues that the traditional bases of the French penal system were undermined at the time by psychiatric theories of human behavior and new sociological interpretations of crime, which challenged legal concepts of free will and moral responsibility. The book also examines the evolution of a new kind of knowledge, and shows how the politique criminelle envisaged by specialists was the result of the interaction among the bureaucratic culture of the magistrates, the clinical and scientific world of the psychiatrists, and the background of the defendants.

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