| Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985 | | Author:
| Colaizzi, Janet | Foreword by:
| Rappeport, Jonas R. | Series title: | History of American Science and Technology Ser. | ISBN: | 978-0-8173-1185-8 | Publication Date: | Jun 2002 | Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
| Book Format: | Paperback | List Price: | USD $29.95 | Book Description:
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Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. Still, to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment, nor insanity from crime in the courts. Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. Still, to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment, nor insanity from crime in the courts. | |