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...

A well known challenge faced by any version of metaethical expressivism is to provide an adequate treatment of the so-called Frege-Geach problem. The task is to make sense of logically complex sentences like 'If I insulted the host then I ought to apologize', to do so by making sense of the states of mind such sentences would be used to express, and to preserve the validity of intuitively valid...

The aim of this investigation was to define more clearly specific forensic-psychiatric characteristics of female murder or attempted murder perpetrators. The retrospective method applied was based on the comparison of the data from forensic-psychiatric assessments carried out in the Center for Forensic Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce, Zagreb, from 1983 to 1997 (including 70 female and 7...

Title: A review of South African perspectives on serial murder Name: G.A. Del Fabbro Supervisor: Prof. D. Beyers Department: Psychology Degree: Master of Arts (Clinical Psychology) Pistorius (1996) was the first individual to introduce research on serial murder in the South African context with her psychodynamic approach to the phenomenon. Since then, others have followed, namely Labuschagne (1...