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Title Negotiating Responsibility : Law, Murder, and States of Mind.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : UBC Press, 2008.

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Contents Cover13; -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Making and Mapping of Capital Murder Case Files -- 3 Criminological Thinking and Ways of 8220;Knowing8221; the Criminal -- 4 Negotiating Responsibility in Laws 8220;Marketplace8221;: Beyond the Insanity Defence -- 5 The Racialization of Criminal Responsibility -- 6 Murder between 8220;Wives8221; and 8220;Husbands8221; -- 7 Concluding Thoughts -- Appendices -- Appendix A-1: Capital Case File Summary -- Appendix A-2: Demographic Profile and Principal Legal Features of Case Files -- Appendix B: Alphabetical List of Capital Case Files with Archival References -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary Annotation Kimberly White examines how the idea of criminal responsibility was produced, organized, and legitimized in and through institutional structures such as remissions, trial, and post-trial procedures; identity politics of race, character, citizenship, and gender; and overlapping narratives of mind-state and capacity. She points to the subtle but deeply influential ways in which common sense about crime, punishment, criminality, and human nature shaped the boundaries of expert knowledge at every stage of the judicial process. Negotiating Responsibility? provides an essential point of reference from which to evaluate current criminal law practices and law reform initiatives in Canada.
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Subject Murder -- Canada -- History.
Murder.
Canada.
History.
Criminal liability -- Canada -- History.
Criminal liability.
Insanity (Law) -- Canada -- History.
Insanity (Law)
Forensic psychiatry -- Canada -- History.
Forensic psychiatry.
Trials (Murder) -- Canada.
Trials (Murder)
Genre/Form Electronic resource.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author White, Kimberley.
ISBN 9780774855983 (electronic book)
0774855983 (electronic book)
1282593692 (electronic book)
9781282593695 (electronic book)