Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference: A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal Court by Chloé Deambrogio

Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference: A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal Court

The Cultural Lives of Law

Chloé Deambrogio

300 pages first pub 2023 (view editions)

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Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural trends shaped psycho-legal debates in state criminal courts, while shedding light on the ways in which experts and lay actors' interpretations of "pathological...

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