Wild Beasts and Idle Humors: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present by Daniel N. Robinson
Wild Beasts and Idle Humors: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present

Daniel N. Robinson

Wild Beasts and Idle Humors: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present

Daniel N. Robinson

299 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction psychology
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How does the law regard and define mental incompetence, when faced with the problem of meting out justice? To what extent has the law relied on extra-legal authorities--be they religious or scientific--to frame its own categories of mental incompe...

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