Description: The Trial of the Assassin GuiteauPsychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age Author(s): Charles E. Rosenberg Format: Paperback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226727172, 978-0226727172 Synopsis This study uses the celebrated American trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President James A. Garfield in 1881, to explore attitudes towards insanity and criminal responsibility in the the late-19th century. The author reconstructs the courtroom battle waged by 24 expert witnesses who represented the two major schools of psychiatric thought of the generation immediately preceding Freud. Although the role of genetics in behaviour was widely accepted, these psychiatrists debated whether heredity had predisposed Guiteau to assassinate Garfield. Rosenberg's account allows the reader to consider one of the earliest cases in the controversy over the criminal responsibility of the insane, a debate that has continued through to modern times.
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Book Title: The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau
Number of Pages: 308 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 1995
Subject: Psychology, History
Item Height: 215 mm
Item Weight: 476 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Charles E. Rosenberg
Subject Area: Criminal Law
Item Width: 143 mm
Format: Paperback
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