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Evil or Ill? - Justifying the insanity defence by Laurie Reznek. London: Routledge, 1997, xi + 310 + (bibliography + index) 19 pp (paperback £14.99, hardback £45)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. D. Mackay
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Legal Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 1998 , pp. 570 - 573
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1998

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