From Insanity to Diminished Capacity: Mental Illness and Criminal Excuse in Contemporary American Law

by Henry F. Fradella

Professor Fradella's new monograph traces the development of defenses of excuse from their English Common Law roots to their various modern formulations under U.S.law. It includes an interdisciplinary, detailed analysis of the historical evolution of the insanity defense, the diminished capacity/responsibility doctrines and related criminal defenses of excuse based on mental illness, including genetic-based defenses, the Black rage defense, the PMS...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933146311
• ISBN13: 9781933146317
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 164 Pages