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• Title:Identity, crime, and legal responsibility in eighteenth-century England / Dana Y. Rabin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rabin, Dana Y., 1965-
  
• Published/Created:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KM506 .R33 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD7897 .R33 2004 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Insanity (Law)--England--History--18th century.
  
• Description:ix, 234 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.
  
• ISBN:1403934444 (cloth)
  
• Contents:1. Crime, culture, and the self
  2. 'Of the persons capable of committing crimes' : pleas of mental distress in the eighteenth-century courtroom
  3. Old excuses, new meanings : 'temporary phrenzy,' necessity, passion, and compulsion
  4. Bodies of evidence, states of mind : infanticide, emotion, and sensibility
  5. 'An indulgence given to great crimes'? : sensibility, compassion, and law reform
  6. end of excuse? : James Hadfield and the insanity plea
  7. From self to subject.