Author	Ewing, Charles Patrick, 1949-
Title	Insanity [electronic resource] : murder, madness, and the law / Charles Patrick Ewing
Imprint	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326130.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource (xxv, 188 p.)

The most complex of all legal/psychological issues, the insanity defence, has been employed thousands of times, but there is still little understanding by psychologists and lawyers of its proper use. By analysing some of the most well-known insanity cases in legal history, this book sheds light on its peculiarities

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