Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle - Hardcover
by Ruth Harris
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ruth HarrisSeries:Oxford Historical MonographsTheme:Cultural Region/FrenchPublish date:9/28/1989Pages:376
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Clarendon PressISBN-13:9780198229919ISBN-10:0198229917UPC:9780198229919Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Penology, EuropeBook Topic:FranceSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.64Product ID:SC0MMAPME5
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Clarendon PressISBN-13:9780198229919ISBN-10:0198229917UPC:9780198229919Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Penology, EuropeBook Topic:FranceSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.64Product ID:SC0MMAPME5
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