Disorder in the Court: Morality, Myth, and the Insanity Defense

ISBN-13: 9780817360030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Andrea L. Alden

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Reasoning with Madness
• Chapter 1. Framing the Issue: What Rhetoric Can Offer to the Conversation
• Chapter 2. A Brief History of Western Thought on Mental Illness and Its Relevance to the Law
• Chapter 3. Knowing Right from Wrong: The Trial of Daniel McNaughtan
• Chapter 4. Late Nineteenth-Century Insanity Defense Jurisprudence: Parsons, Davis, and the 'Irresistible Impulse' Test
• Chapter 5. Mid-Twentieth-Century Insanity Defense Jurisprudence: Durham v. United States and the 'Product' Test
• Chapter 6. Late Twentieth-Century Insanity Defense Jurisprudence: The Trial of John Hinckley Jr. and the Insanity Defense Reform Act
• Conclusion. The Insanity Defense Since Hinckley
• Appendix 1. Parsons v. State
• Appendix 2. Davis v. United States
• Appendix 3. Durham v. United States
• Appendix 4. Hinkley Letter to Jodie Foster
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index