Meet Joel Peter Eigen, Ph.D.

Joel Peter Eigen (LANCASTER, PA) is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College and Principal Fellow (Honorary) at the University of Melbourne. Mad-Doctors in the Dock is the final volume in his trilogy examining the insanity defense in the British courtroom. The first two volumes are Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court and Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London.

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Mad-Doctors in the Dock
Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913

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Unconscious Crime
Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

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