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02036aam a2200337 i 4500 001 F2FBE748477411EC81CA9FE82DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211117010121 008 210204s2021 ctu b 0|1 0 eng 010 $a 2021932166 020 $a 9780300242744 020 $a 0300242743 035 $a (OCoLC)1241245988 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a KD7897 $b .E83 2021 100 1 $a Evans, Catherine L., $e author. 245 10 $a Unsound empire : $b civilization and madness in late-Victorian law / $c Catherine L. Evans. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 290 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 8 $a Unsound Empire' is a history of criminal responsibility in the nineteenth-century British Empire told through detailed accounts of homicide cases across three continents. If a defendant in a murder trial was going to hang, he or she had to deserve it. Establishing the mental element of guilt-criminal responsibility-transformed state violence into law. And yet, to the consternation of officials in Britain and beyond, experts in new scientific fields posited that insanity was widespread and growing, and evolutionary theories suggested that wide swaths of humanity lacked the self-control and understanding that common law demanded. Could it be fair to punish mentally ill or allegedly "uncivilized" people? Could British civilization survive if killers avoided the noose? 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Insanity defense $z Great Britain $x History. 650 0 $a Insanity (Law) $z Great Britain $x History. 650 7 $a Insanity defense. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01743092 650 7 $a Insanity (Law) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01715759 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014954.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F2FBE748477411EC81CA9FE82DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search