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IDENTITY, CRIME, AND LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

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This book examines the history of insanity pleas in the English legal system and the ways in which defendants and their families defined and evaded responsibility for crime. By exploring cases of infanticide and other crimes, Dana Rabin brings new …

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This book examines the history of insanity pleas in the English legal system and the ways in which defendants and their families defined and evaded responsibility for crime. By exploring cases of infanticide and other crimes, Dana Rabin brings new insights into the development of legal ideas of responsibility and the self in eighteenth-century England.

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"This book examines the history of insanity pleas in the English legal system and the ways in which defendants and their families defined and evaded responsibility for crime. By exploring …"

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