Richard Moran

Careers of the Criminally Insane

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Political criminality : the defiance and defense of authority

Actions have to be defined as criminal by those in authority. This study of rebellion, revolution, police enforcement, and law examines the creation of the category of criminality for acts and people that threaten the power of those in authority. It also examines the wider apparatus for identifying and controlling political opponents: intelligence, information control, intimidation, democratic elections, or the elimination of grievances.

Knowing Right from Wrong: The Insanity Defense of Daniel McNaughtan.

Anglo-American law has been greatly determined by this notorious case, and even though the McNaughtan Rules have metamorphosed into the ALI rule in many jurisdictions, that latter rule is but a more flexible and semantically superior version of the former. Therefore, any review of the actual McNaughtan trial and environment is a helpful literary contribution, particularly for forensic psychiatrists and legal scholars. Richard Moran is a sociologist, currently Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Holyoke. He has also been visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University. In Knowing Right from Wrong, he has reviewed both the trial and the social environment of that famous trial in 1843.

The Modern Foundation for the Insanity Defense: The Cases of James Hadfield (1800) and Daniel McNaughtan (1843):

The modern foundation for the insanity defense was put in place during the first half of the nineteenth century, between the years 1800 and 1843. During this brief period the reaction to the acquittals by reason of insanity of James Hadfield (1800) and Daniel McNaughtan (1843) shaped the present function and administration of the insanity defense in the Anglo-American world. In the case of Hadfield, the reaction of the House of Commons to his acquittal led to the passage of the automatic confinement statutes that now accompany a successful plea of insanity in most jurisdictions. In McNaughtans case, the reaction of the House of Lords to his acquittal led to the establishment of the famous right-from-wrong test of criminal responsibility that bears his name.