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Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

Eigen, Joel Peter

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceGeneral LawBritish History

ISBN10: 0801874289
ISBN13: 9780801874284
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Nov 18 2003
Pages: 223
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

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 evidence of mental aberration. Instead, they were--or claimed to be--missing, absent, or unconscious lucid, though unaware of their actions.

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