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Tables of Contents for Evil or Ill?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
INTRODUCTION: THE DIAGNOSIS OF EVIL
1
14
Mad or bad?
1
1
Puzzles and paradoxes
2
5
The legal and medical paradigms
7
3
Insanity defence
10
2
Themes and outline
12
3
1 A HISTORY OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
15
23
Bad deeds and evil minds
15
1
The emergence of legal insanity
16
5
The invention of diminished responsibility
21
4
Exculpatory causes
25
4
Automatism
29
3
Intoxication
32
4
Infanticide
36
2
2 A TAXONOMY OF DEFENCES
38
23
A paradox
38
1
Methodological matters
39
1
Form and content
40
1
Justification versus excuse
41
2
Aristotelian origins
43
3
The defences
46
14
Taxonomies
60
1
3 IGNORANCE AS AN EXCUSE
61
14
Legal excuses and moral excuses
61
1
Degrees of evil
62
2
Ignorance of the facts
64
5
Ignorance of the law
69
2
Moral ignorance
71
4
4 COMPULSION AS AN EXCUSE
75
18
Unjust laws
75
5
Capacity for restraint
80
3
Whose incentives?
83
3
Choosing versus wanting
86
5
An alternative view
91
2
5 AUTOMATISM AS AN EXCUSE
93
22
An insane law
93
2
What is intentional action?
95
2
Does consciousness matter?
97
2
Voluntariness
99
5
Unconscious motivation
104
3
Hypnosis
107
2
Dissociative states
109
1
Multiple personality disorder
110
5
6 THE JUSTIFICATION OF EXCUSES
115
20
Two theories
115
1
Why punish?
116
1
Whom to punish?
117
3
The trouble with Retributivism
120
2
The amount of punishment
122
2
Justifying excuses
124
5
Character or intent?
129
6
7 CAUSALITY AS AN EXCUSE
135
17
Does causality excuse?
135
1
Crime is destiny
135
5
Does character excuse?
140
3
Biology of evil?
143
1
Excused by disease
144
8
8 THE REDUCTIONIST THEORY
152
21
What's special about mental illness?
152
1
The M'Naghten Rules
153
8
The irresistible impulse test
161
7
Mental illness as duress
168
5
9 IRRATIONALITY AS AN EXCUSE
173
27
Rationality and responsibility
173
1
Substantive irrationality
174
10
Formal irrationality
184
5
Practical irrationality
189
4
Moral insanity
193
4
Status excuses
197
3
10 THE CONCEPT OF DISEASE
200
23
Insanity without illness
200
4
Is crime a disease?
204
2
Saving Durham
206
1
Relativity of the insanity defence
207
6
Sexual sadism
213
5
The charge of tautology
218
1
A moral or scientific verdict?
219
4
11 CHARACTER CHANGE AS AN EXCUSE
223
23
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
223
4
Justifying the new excuse
227
1
Provocation revisited
228
2
Automatism revisited
230
3
Character change as an insanity defence
233
4
What character changes excuse?
237
2
The paradox of evil
239
3
Is psychopathy a disease?
242
4
12 THE CLASH OF PARADIGMS
246
20
How rational are we?
246
6
The fate of Folk Psychology
252
4
Guilty brains
256
4
The clash of conceptual paradigms
260
6
13 THE INSANITY DEFENCE IN PRACTICE
266
29
The lay concept of insanity
266
1
Changes in legal definitions
267
3
Jury studies
270
5
Who are excused?
275
3
Evil or ill?
278
3
Three trials
281
14
CONCLUSION: PSYCHIATRIC JUSTICE
295
16
The case for abolition
295
6
The moral foundation of the insanity defence
301
3
Diminished capacity
304
3
The nature of insanity
307
4
Bibliography
311
11
Index
322