Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference

A History of Mental Illness in the Criminal Court

Chloé Deambrogio (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2023
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3032-1 (ISBN)

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In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloé Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century. During this period, new psychiatric notions of the mind and its readability, legal doctrines of insanity and diminished culpability, and cultural stereotypes about race and gender shaped the ways in which legal professionals, mental health experts, and lay witnesses approached mental disability evidence, especially in cases carrying the death penalty.

Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural trends shaped psycho-legal debates in state criminal courts, while shedding light on the ways in which experts and lay actors' interpretations of "pathological" mental states influenced trial verdicts in capital cases. She shows that despite mounting pressures from advocates of the "rehabilitative penology," Texas courts maintained a punitive approach towards defendants allegedly affected by severe mental disabilities, while allowing for moralized views about personalities, habits, and lifestyle to influence psycho-legal assessments, in potentially prejudicial ways.

Chloé Deambrogio is a Junior Research Fellow in Law at Merton College, Oxford. Her research sits at the intersection of critical legal theory, death penalty scholarship, mental disability law, and race and gender studies.

Introduction: Introduction

1. Heredity, Environment, and the Doctrine of Civilization

2. Biology, Insanity, and the Criminal Courts

3. Psychoanalysis, the Insanity Defense, and the Family-Centered Ideology

4. Psychoanalysis and the Construction of the Criminal Psychopath

5. The "New" Scientific Psychiatry, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Future Dangerousness

6. The Abused and Neglected as a "Continuing Threat to Society"

Epilogue: Forensic Psychiatry and Trial Practices in the Twenty-First Century

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Lives of Law
Zusatzinfo	5 tables
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-5036-3032-3 / 1503630323
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3032-1 / 9781503630321
Zustand	Neuware