Abstract
This chapter first sets out the purpose of the book, which is to examine the terrain of mental incapacity in criminal law. It suggests that the terrain of mental incapacity in criminal law is traversed by a set of mental incapacity doctrines, and marked out by particular legal practices concerning evidence and proof, which themselves rest on different types of knowledge of mental incapacity. This terrain has a distinctive character, which is analysed under the label ‘manifest madness’. The chapter then discusses the reasons for examining mental incapacity and a socio-historical approach to mental incapacity. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
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