Mental Conditions Defences in the Criminal Law
R. D. Mackay
Mental condition defences have been used in several high-profile and controversial criminal trials in recent years. indeed, mental abnormality is increasingly an important yet complex source of defence within the criminal trial process. The author offers a detailed critical analysis of those defences within the Criminal Law where the accused relies on some form of mental abnormality as a source of defence. Topics covered include: the defences of automatism, insanity, diminished responsibility, and infanticide; self-induced incapacity; and the doctrine of fault. It also includes a chapter on unfitness to plead, which although not a defence has been included because of its important relationship to mental disorder within the criminal process. Drawing upon a wide variety of legal, psychiatric, and philosophical sources, this is a timely contribution to a controversial and complex topic.
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Рік:
1996
Видавництво:
Oxford University Press, USA
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
280
ISBN 10:
0198259956
ISBN 13:
9780198259954
Серії:
Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
Файл:
PDF, 13.10 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1996