Murders and madness : medicine, law, and society in the fin de siècle /

Examining the French debate over crime and madness in the fin de siècle, Harris argues that psychiatric theories of human behaviour and new sociologicalinterpretations of crime combined to undermine the traditional foundations of the penal system and helped to shape the new science of criminology.

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Main Author: Harris, Ruth, 1958-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1989.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
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