This article explores how Mary Shelley's Frankenstein engages with notions relating to mens rea. It constructs a reading of the creature as Victor's double, and therefore a manifestation of his guilty mind. Utilizing interdisciplinary literary-legal methods, the article employs the central relationship in Frankenstein as a means of illuminating and critiquing the ways in which criminal law reproduces and perpetuates gendered notions of behaviour in relation to what is deemed a justified emotional response in the partial defences of provocation and loss of control. It concludes that Frankenstein helps to expose these gaps in legal discourse and ultimately destabilizes binaries of gendered criminality.

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“比她的伴侣更恶毒一万倍”：通过阅读玛丽雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》，破坏了为挑衅和失去控制辩护的性别假设

本文探讨了 Mary Shelley 的Frankenstein如何处理与mens rea相关的概念。它将生物解读为维克多的替身，因此是他内疚的表现。文章利用跨学科的文学法律方法，将《弗兰肯斯坦》中的中心关系作为阐明和批判刑法复制和延续性别化行为观念的方式的一种手段，这些行为与在部分辩护中被认为是合理的情绪反应有关。挑衅和失控。它得出的结论是，弗兰肯斯坦有助于揭露法律话语中的这些差距，并最终破坏了性别犯罪的二元对立。