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Madness, Murder and Mayhem: Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

English

By (author): John Burt Kathryn Burtinshaw

Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the judicial system in Britain. This book explores these changes and explains the rationale for purpose-built criminal lunatic asylums in the Victorian era. Specific case studies are used to illustrate and describe some of the earliest patients at Broadmoor Hospital - the Criminal Lunatic Asylum for England and Wales and the Criminal Lunatic Department at Perth Prison in Scotland. Chapters examine the mental and social problems that led to crime alongside individuals considered to be weak-minded, imbeciles or idiots. Family murders are explored as well as individuals who killed for gain. An examination of psychiatric evidence is provided to illustrate how often an insanity defence was used in court and the outcome if the judge and jury did not believe these claims. Two cases are discussed where medical experts gave evidence that individuals were mentally irresponsible for their crimes but they were led to the gallows. Written by genealogists and historians, this book examines and identifies individuals who committed heinous crimes and researches the impact crime had on themselves, their families and their victims. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Jun 2019
  • Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781526751379

About John BurtKathryn Burtinshaw

KATHRYN BURTINSHAW Kathryn has had a passion for family and local history all her life and inherited a fascination in Victorian and Edwardian crime from her father. With careers in both the Diplomatic Service and the Security Service she is an experienced researcher. She holds an Advanced Diploma in Local History from the University of Oxford and a M.Sc. in Genealogy Palaeography and Heraldry from the University of Strathclyde. Her M.Sc. dissertation looked in detail at the lives of epileptic women in asylums in the nineteenth century. DR JOHN BURT John is a qualified professional genealogist. A retired medical practitioner he worked in the NHS for over 30 years and is now an author researcher and lecturer in family history. John has a keen interest in the history of medicine military history and Scottish social history. His M.Sc. dissertation in Genealogy at the University of Strathclyde looked at admissions to the Scottish Borders District Lunatic Asylum in the late nineteenth century analysing patient demographics reasons for admission including hereditary illness and eventual patient outcomes. Kathryn and John published a book entitled Lunatics Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland published by Pen and Sword in 2017. They run a genealogy company Pinpoint Ancestry with branches in North Wales and Scotland. http://pinpointancestry.co.uk

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