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Evil or Ill?: Justifying the Insanity Defence (Philosophical Issues in Science) - Hardcover

Book 5 of 20: Philosophical Issues in Science

Reznek, Lawrie

 
9780415166997: Evil or Ill?: Justifying the Insanity Defence (Philosophical Issues in Science)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415166993 ISBN 13: 9780415166997
Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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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).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415166993
ISBN 13 
9780415166997
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
342