A case of child murder
A case of child murder: law and science in nineteenth-century Tuscany Patrizia Guarnieri
Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; 1993.
ISBN: 0745609031
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Events and Enquiry. Alarm in Incisa. The disappearance of the
children. The murderer is discovered. The city magistrates. The
confession. Crime or politics. The witnesses and the child Amerigo.
The motive. The charge -- 2. Carlino and Public Opinion. Dramatic
action. Carlino 'the victim' and decent people. Carlino and the
urchins. Carlino and the scientists. Carlino the degenerate -- 3. The
Trial. Yorick and the celebrated trials. The judges in court. The
investigation challenged. Madness: fact and judgement. The village
idiot and the schoolmaster. The psychiatric experts. The jurors and
the verdict -- 4. The Psychiatric Case. The psychiatrists' battles
and defeats. The banner of organicism. Physiognomy: scientific
rationality and common sense. Freedom, constraint or otherwise. Why?
'No reason'. Carlino's thoughts.
Book Details:
Language: eng
Physical Description: vi, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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