Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence <http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/jurisprudence/> presents Psychologising Jekyll, Demonising Hyde: The Strange Case of Criminal Responsibility <http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/law/457.html?eventcategoryid=35&eventid=3050> Friday 5 December 2008, 5pm Sydney Law School, 173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney Professor Nicola Lacey <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/staff/nicola-lacey.htm> , Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory, London School of Economics In this public lecture, Nicola Lacey puts Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of Jekyll and Hyde to work for a specific interpretive purpose in criminal law theory. The question of responsibility for crime, complicated by not only the supernatural dimension of Mr. Hyde's appearance but also by Stevenson's grasp of contemporary psychiatric, evolutionary and medical thought, are key to the interest of the story. Lacey argues that Jekyll and Hyde serves as a powerful metaphor both for specifically late Victorian perplexities about criminality and criminal responsibility, and for more persistently troubling questions about the legitimacy of and practical basis for criminalization. A close reading of the story can help to illustrate the complex mix of elements bearing on criminal responsibility-attribution, and to explain what is wrong with the influential argument that, by the end of the 19th Century, attributions of responsibility already rested primarily on factual findings about the defendant's state of mind. Far from representing the moment of triumph of a practice of responsibility attribution grounded in the assessment of whether the defendant's capacities were fully engaged, Lacey argues that an analysis of mental derangement defences in the late 19th Century helps us to understand that longer-standing patterns of moral evaluation of character remained central to the criminal process. In building this argument, she suggests that Stevenson's tale can help us to make sense of the resurgence of overtly 'character-based' practices of responsibility attribution in contemporary Britain. This lecture is free, however places are limited and RSVP is required. RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For a copy of the event flyer, click here <http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/events/2008/December/JSI_Lacey_051208.pdf> . ________________________________________________________________________ For further information, please contact the events team, tel: (02) 9351 0248, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Privacy Policy The University will not disclose personal information concerning you to parties outside the University except in accordance with its Privacy Policy <http://www.usyd.edu.au/senate/policies/Privacy.pdf> (pdf) which conforms to the requirements of the NSW Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act <http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/papipa1998464/index.html> . Details regarding disclosure of personal information by the University may be found in the Privacy Management Plan. Faculty of Law | University of Sydney | Level 12 | 173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Tel: 9351 0248 | Fax: 9351 0200 | www.law.usyd.edu.au/events | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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