This book has an excellent introduction by Professor Harold Laski, in which he explains that the author's aim is to advocate the reform of the law respecting those accused of murder whose plea is insanity at the time of the alleged offence. The duty of the judge in his instruction of the jury in such cases is based upon the McNaghten Rules of 1843. McNaghten shot and killed Mr. Drummond, Sir Ro...

W hen law enforcement apprehends a serial murderer, the event is consistently the focus of unswerving media coverage. For local communities, the ordeal can be particularly shocking and upsetting. Residents living in a community that is exposed to serial murder may even experience posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms for varying periods of time (Herkov and Beirnat, 1997). Over the past three d...

FIST121 Making a Killing: Murder and True Crime Non/Fiction Narratives This course explores the genre of true crime in a comparative setting and by way of a study of different typologies of murder: spree killing, fratricide, serial killing, infanticide. Roland Barthes wrote in Mythologies that, "Periodically, some trial, and not necessarily fictitious like the one in Camus's THE STRANGER, comes...

FIST121 Making a Killing: Murder and True Crime Non/Fiction Narratives This course explores the genre of true crime in a comparative setting and by way of a study of different typologies of murder: spree killing, fratricide, serial killing, and infanticide. Roland Barthes wrote in Mythologies that, "Periodically, some trial, and not necessarily fictitious like the one in Camus's THE STRANGER, c...

FIST121 Making a Killing: Murder and True Crime Non/Fiction Narratives This course explores the genre of true crime in a comparative setting and by way of a study of different typologies of murder: spree killing, fratricide, serial killing, and infanticide. Roland Barthes wrote in Mythologies that, "Periodically, some trial, and not necessarily fictitious like the one in Camus's THE STRANGER, c...

FIST121 Making a Killing: Murder and True Crime Non/Fiction Narratives This course explores the genre of true crime in a comparative setting and by way of a study of different typologies of murder: spree killing, fratricide, serial killing, and infanticide. Roland Barthes wrote in Mythologies that, "Periodically, some trial, and not necessarily fictitious like the one in Camus's THE STRANGER, c...

FIST121 Making a Killing: Murder and True Crime Non/Fiction Narratives This course explores the genre of true crime in a comparative setting and by way of a study of different typologies of murder: spree killing, fratricide, serial killing, and infanticide. Roland Barthes wrote in Mythologies that, "Periodically, some trial, and not necessarily fictitious like the one in Camus's THE STRANGER, c...

FIST121 Making a Killing: Murder and True Crime Non/Fiction Narratives This course explores the genre of true crime in a comparative setting and by way of a study of different typologies of murder: spree killing, fratricide, serial killing, and infanticide. Roland Barthes wrote in Mythologies that, "Periodically, some trial, and not necessarily fictitious like the one in Camus's THE STRANGER, c...