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Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

By: Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt

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Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

By: Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt

Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the judicial system in Britain. This book explores these changes and explains the rationale for purpose-built criminal lunatic asylums in the Victorian era.Specific case studies are used to illustrate and describe some of the earliest patients at Broadmoor Hospital the Criminal Lunatic Asylum for England and Wales and the Criminal Lunatic Department at Perth Prison in Scotland. Chapters examine the mental and social problems that led to crime alongside individuals considered to be weak-minded, imbeciles or idiots. Family murders are explored as well as individuals who killed for gain. An examination of psychiatric evidence is provided to illustrate how often an insanity defence was used in court and the outcome if the judge and jury did not believe these claims. Two cases are discussed where medical experts gave evidence that individuals were mentally irresponsible for their crimes but they were led to the gallows.Written by genealogists and historians, this book examines and identifies individuals who committed heinous crimes and researches the impact crime had on themselves, their families and their victims.

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Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots

A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

By: Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt

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A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

By: Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt

“Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients.”—Daily Mail In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed. Focusing on selected cases, this new study enables the reader to understand how progressively advancing attitudes and expectations affected decisions, leading to better legislation and medical practice throughout the century. Specific mental health conditions are discussed in detail and the treatments patients received are analyzed in an expert way. A clear view of why institutional asylums were established, their ethos for the treatment of patients, and how they were run as palaces rather than prisons giving moral therapy to those affected becomes apparent. The changing ways in which patients were treated, and altered societal views to the incarceration of the mentally ill, are explored. The book is thoroughly illustrated and contains images of patients and asylum staff never previously published, as well as first-hand accounts of life in a nineteenth-century asylum from a patient’s perspective. Written for genealogists as well as historians, this book contains clear information concerning access to asylum records and other relevant primary sources and how to interpret their contents in a meaningful way. “Through the use of case studies, this book adds a personal note to the historiography in a way that is often missing from scholarly works.”—Federation of Family History Societies

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Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots

A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

By: Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt

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A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

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Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

By: Kathryn Burtinshaw,John Burt

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Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

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Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots

Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots

Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots

Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots

Madness, Murder and Mayhem

Madness, Murder and Mayhem

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