Identity, Crime and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England

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Identity, Crime and Legal Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century England is written by D. Rabin and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230505090 (ISBN 10) and 9780230505094 (ISBN 13).

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.