Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London by Joel Peter Eigen

Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

Joel Peter Eigen

223 pages hardcover 2003

2 editions

nonfiction history psychology sociology dark medium-paced
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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 c...

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