Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle: Medicine, Law and Society in the Fin-de-siecle (Oxford Historical Monographs) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle: Medicine, Law and Society in the Fin-de-siecle (Oxford Historical Monographs) Book

Murders and Madness : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198229919 : 0198229917 : 28 Sep 1989 : A study of the debate surrounding crime and madness in France from 1840-1914, which argues that the French penal system was undermined by psychiatric theories of human behaviour and sociological interpretations of crime. Case studies are featured on which this discussion was based.Read More

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    This is an interdisciplinary study of the debate on crime and madness in France between 1880 and 1914. Harris argues that the traditional bases of the French penal system were undermined at the time by psychiatric theories of human behavior and new sociological interpretations of crime, which challenged legal concepts of free will and moral responsibility. The book also examines the evolution of a new kind of knowledge, and shows how the politique criminelle envisaged by specialists was the result of the interaction among the bureaucratic culture of the magistrates, the clinical and scientific world of the psychiatrists, and the background of the defendants.

  • 0198229917
  • 9780198229919
  • Ruth Harris
  • 29 June 1989
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 376
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