Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

by Joel Peter Eigen

A sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a morally vacant juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a lesion of the will; an articulate and poised man on trial for assault who, while conducting his own defense, undergoes a profound personality change and becomes a wild and delusional alter. These people are not characters from a mystery novelist's vivid imagination, but rather defendants who were tried at the Old Bailey, London's central criminal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801874289
• ISBN13: 9780801874284
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"