(Dis)articulating Morality and Myth: An Ideological History of the Insanity Defense

abstract: Both law and medicine are interpretive practices, and both systems have historically worked in tandem, however ineffectively or tumultuously. The law is, by social mandate, imagined as a "fixed" system of social control, made up of rules and procedures grounded in a reality that...

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Other Authors: Alden, Andrea Lisa (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Law
law
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25094