Negotiating responsibility : law, murder, and states of mind / Kimberley White.

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2008.

63058

Insanity (Law) -- Canada.

Competency to stand trial -- Canada.

1. Introduction --2. The making and mapping of capital murder case files --3. Criminological thinking and ways of knowing the criminal --4. Negotiating responsibility in law's marketplace: beyond the insanity defence --5. The racialization of criminal responsibility --6. Murder between wives and husbands --7. Concluding thoughts.

In this book, capital murder case files are used to show how the idea of criminal responsibility was produced, organised and legitimised through institutional structures in Canada during the twentieth century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780774812764

[xviii], 177 p. ; 24 cm