Insanity

by Charles Patrick Ewing

Book Overview

The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged 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 defendants...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019532613X
• ISBN13: 9780195326130
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"