Evil or Ill?
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Author_Lawrie Reznek
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Cold Blooded Killer
compulsion defences
criminal responsibility
defence
Diminished Capacity Defence
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Durham Rule
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Evil Character
excuse
excuse theory
Folk Psychology
forensic psychiatry
insanity
Insanity Acquittees
Insanity Defence
Insanity Defense Reform Act
Involuntary Intoxication
Irresistible Impulse Test
Lacked Mens Rea
legal psychology
mens
Mens Rea
Mental Illness
moral culpability
NGRI
NGRI Verdict
partial
Partial Excuse
person
philosophical analysis of criminal law
Psychopathic Personality
Psychopathic Personality Disorder
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Reckless Killer
rule
Volitional Prong
Volitional Test
Wild Beast Test
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415167000
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Lawrie Reznek addresses these questions and more in his controversial investigation of the insanity defense in Evil or Ill? Drawing from countless intriguing case examples, he aims to understand the concept of an excuse, and explains why the law excuses certain actions and not others. In his easily accessible and elegant style, he explains that in law, there exists two excuses derived from Aristotle: the excuses of ignorance and compulsion. Reznek, however proposes a third excuse - the excuse of character change. In introducing this third excuse, Reznek raises a controversial possibility - the abolition of the insanity defence.
Lawrie Reznek is both a trained philosopher and psychiatrist. He teaches psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is also the author of The Nature of Disease (Routledge, 1987), The Medicine Men (Collins, 1990), and The Philosophical Defence of Psychiatry (Routledge, 1991).
