Book review: in search of criminal responsibility: ideas, interests and institutions by Nicola Lacey

Within In Search of Criminal Responsibility: Ideas, Interests and Institutions, Nicola Lacey investigates changing understandings of criminal responsibility in England and Wales from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, reflecting on its current place within legal, social, political and cultural frameworks. This is an accessible and erudite account that represents an important and illuminating divergence from traditional scholarship, finds Caroline Henaghan.