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Identity, Crime and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England
Dana Rabin
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Description for Identity, Crime and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England
Hardcover. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
During the eighteenth century English defendants, victims, witnesses, judges, and jurors spoke a language of the mind. With their reputations or lives at stake, men and women presented their complex emotions and passions as grounds for acquittal or mitigation of punishment. Inside the courtroom the language of excuse reshaped crimes and punishments, signalling a shift in the age-old negotiation of mitigation. Outside the courtroom the language of the mind reflected society's preoccupation with questions of sensibility, responsibility, and the self.
During the eighteenth century English defendants, victims, witnesses, judges, and jurors spoke a language of the mind. With their reputations or lives at stake, men and women presented their complex emotions and passions as grounds for acquittal or mitigation of punishment. Inside the courtroom the language of excuse reshaped crimes and punishments, signalling a shift in the age-old negotiation of mitigation. Outside the courtroom the language of the mind reflected society's preoccupation with questions of sensibility, responsibility, and the self.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403934444
SKU
V9781403934444
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99-15
About Dana Rabin
DANA RABIN is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the history of early modern Britain with an emphasis on law, gender, emotion, and identity and is the author of "Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century English Criminal Trials, 1730-1800".
Reviews for Identity, Crime and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England
- '[Rabin] give[s] weight to abstractions like 'sensibility' as actual forces in the courtroom and in the reform movement.' Paul Baines, Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol.42, no.1, 2008