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Unsound Empire on Hardback by Catherine L Evans
Unsound Empire on Hardback by Catherine L Evans
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Unsound Empire

Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law
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A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trials Unsound Empire analyzes the history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth-century British Empire through detailed accounts of homicide cases. Catherine Evans explores changing understandings of insanity and their consequences for the principle that only intentional, sane, blameworthy acts deserved punishment. While British common law was flexible, it had a breaking point, and controversies involving responsibility and insanity challenged judges to determine how many of the emerging ideas about criminality, race, ethnology, and the mind the law could accommodate.

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Catherine Evans is assistant professor at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto.
Release date Australia
November 23rd, 2021
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
15 b-w illus.
Pages
304
ISBN-13
9780300242744
Product ID
34782259

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