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Evil or Ill?: Justifying the Insanity Defence

Evil or Ill?: Justifying the Insanity Defence Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition

by Reznek, Lawrie

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  • Title Evil or Ill?: Justifying the Insanity Defence
  • Author Reznek, Lawrie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 342
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London, United Kingdom
  • Date 1997
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0415167000I3N00
  • ISBN 9780415167000 / 0415167000
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.49 x 5.49 x 0.99 in (21.56 x 13.94 x 2.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Insanity (Law), Criminal liability
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-11034
  • Dewey Decimal Code 345.04

From the publisher

Lawrie Reznek addresses these questions and more in his controversial investigation of the insanity defense in Evil or Ill? Drawing from countless intriguing case examples, he aims to understand the concept of an excuse, and explains why the law excuses certain actions and not others. In his easily accessible and elegant style, he explains that in law, there exists two excuses derived from Aristotle: the excuses of ignorance and compulsion. Reznek, however proposes a third excuse - the excuse of character change. In introducing this third excuse, Reznek raises a controversial possibility - the abolition of the insanity defence.

About the author

Lawrie Reznek is both a trained philosopher and psychiatrist. He teaches psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is also the author of The Nature of Disease (Routledge, 1987), The Medicine Men (Collins, 1990), and The Philosophical Defence of Psychiatry (Routledge, 1991).