Peter Eigen: 3 books

Book cover of Unconscious Crime

Unconscious Crime

Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

by Joel Peter Eigen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

A sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a "morally vacant" juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a "lesion of the will"; an articulate and poised man on trial for assault who, while conducting his own defense, undergoes a profound personality change and becomes a wild and delusional...
Book cover of Mad-Doctors in the Dock

Mad-Doctors in the Dock

Defending the Diagnosis, 1760–1913

by Joel Peter Eigen
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016

Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer, "It would have been cruel to put her in cold water." Afterwards, this mother sat down and poured herself...
Book cover of Wirtschaftsstrafrecht: Plage oder Gewinn für den Standort Deutschland?
by Jana Schiedek, Thomas Rönnau, Matthias Jahn
Language: German
Release Date: January 19, 2018

Die Fachtagung "Wirtschaftsstrafrecht: Plage oder Gewinn für den Standort Deutschland?" war eine überaus erfolgreiche Kooperationsveranstaltung der Bucerius Law School und der Behörde für Justiz und Gleichstellung. Dieser Tagungsband fasst die Beiträge der Tagung, die im September 2012...
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