ENGLISH

Identity, Crime, and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England

By Dana Y. Rabin (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2004
ISBN
978-1-349-51716-9, 978-0-230-50509-4
DOI
10.1057/9780230505094
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
909 kB (931131 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 234\245
Time added
2016-11-20 09:00:00
History of Britain and Ireland;Social History;Cult

Description

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.

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