TY - BOOK AU - Loughnan,Arlie TI - Manifest madness: mental incapacity in the criminal law SN - 9780191738883 AV - KD7897 U1 - 345.4204 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Mentally ill offenders KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - England KW - Wales KW - Criminal liability KW - Insanity (Law) KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law KW - thema N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Specialized N2 - Understanding mental incapacity in criminal law is notoriously difficult; it involves tracing overlapping and interlocking legal doctrines, current and past practices of evidence and proof, and also medical and social understandings of mental illness and incapacity. With its focus on the complex interaction of legal doctrines and practices relating to mental incapacity and knowledge - both expert and non-expert - of it, this book offers a fresh perspective on this topic UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698592.001.0001 ER -