Titlebook: Identity, Crime and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England; Dana Y. Rabin Book 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmilla

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s 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 l

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,‘Of the Persons Capable of Committing Crimes’: Pleas of Mental Distress in the Eighteenth-Century Cnocence by reason of insanity. At his state trial Ferrers told his peers in the House of Lords that he suffered from occasional insanity, that he had experienced an episode during the murder, and that ‘at the time I did not know what I was about.’. Writing the summation of his own defense, Ferrers a

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,‘An indulgence given to great crimes’? Sensibility, Compassion, and Law Reform,bulary of psychological excuse reflected a wider discussion of the relationship between reason, emotion, and the self that permeated eighteenth-century culture. In the courtroom — with life, liberty, or property at stake — these ideas found their most intense use and provoked a debate about the limi