RT Book
T1 Insanity: murder, madness, and the law
A1 Ewing, Charles Patrick 1949-
LA English
PP Oxford u.a.
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2008
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/555868621
AB The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people chraged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable and is determined not by the defendant's mental state, but by their lawyer's and psychologist's influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicizied ... (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag)
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN KF9242
SN 019532613X
SN 9780195326130
K1 Insanity (law) : United States
K1 Insanity Defense : United States
K1 Mentally ill : Commitment and detention : United States
K1 USA : Tötung : Täter : Psychische Störung : Schuldunfähigkeit : Geschichte 1963-2001