“Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity”: The Historical Roots of the Canadian Insanity Defence, 1843-1920

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1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents iii
3. Foreword v
4. Preface vi
5. Aspects of the Criminal Law, Crime, Criminal Process and Punishment in Europe and Canada, 1500-1935 1
6. The Refinement of English Criminal Jurisprudence, 1500-1848 17
7. Criminal Jurisprudence in Ancien-Régime France: The Parlement of Paris in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 43
8. The Meanings of the Criminal Law in Quebec, 1764-1774 77
9. English Thinking About Crime, 1530-1620 111
10. Judicial Records and the Measurement of Crime in Eighteenth-Century England 127
11. The Measurement of Crime in Nineteenth-Century Canada; Some Methodological and Philosophical Problems 147
12. Women and Crime in Canada in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1712-1759 157
13. “Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity”: The Historical Roots of the Canadian Insanity Defence, 1843-1920 179
14. Patterns of Prairie Crime: Calgary, 1875-1939 219
15. Adapting Our Justice System to the Cultural Needs of Canada’s North 257
16. Punishment During the Ancien Régime: The Case of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic 273
17. Convict Life in Canadian Federal Penitentiaries, 1867-1900 297
18. Theory and the History of Criminal Justice 319
19. A Philosophical Perspective on Historical Research Into Law 329
20. Also published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for The Calgary Institute for the Humanities 341