A Drunkard''s Defense : Alcohol, Murder, and Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America

Name: A Drunkard''s Defense
Brand: University of Massachusetts Press
SKU: 9781625345547
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ISBN: 9781625345547

by Michele Rotunda

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1625345542

ISBN-13 9781625345547

Publisher University of Massachusetts Press

Imprint University of Massachusetts Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 26th, 2021

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 350 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 15.20 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas Violence and abuse in society Health, illness or addiction: social aspects Violence in society Illness & addiction: social aspects Crime & criminology Crime and criminology Legal history Medical sociology History of the Americas

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Examines a variety of court cases to explore the attitudes of nineteenth-century physicians, legal professionals, temperance advocates, and ordinary Americans toward the relationship between drunkenness, violence, and responsibility, providing broader insights into the country's complicated relationship with alcohol.

Is drunkenness a defense for murder? In the early nineteenth century, the answer was a resounding no. Intoxication was considered voluntary, and thus provided no defense. Yet as the century progressed, American courts began to extend exculpatory value to heavy drinking. The medicalization of alcohol use created new categories of mental illness which, alongside changes in the law, formed the basis for defense arguments that claimed unintended consequences and lack of criminal intent. Concurrently, advocates of prohibition cast "demon rum" and the "rum-seller" as the drunkard's accomplices in crime, mitigating offenders' actions. By the postbellum period, a backlash, led by medical professionals and an influential temperance movement, left the legacy of an unsettled legal standard.

In A Drunkard's Defense, Michele Rotunda examines a variety of court cases to explore the attitudes of nineteenth-century physicians, legal professionals, temperance advocates, and ordinary Americans toward the relationship between drunkenness, violence, and responsibility, providing broader insights into the country's complicated relationship with alcohol.

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