Psychiatry and criminal culpability
How do we distinguish between sin and sickness? Citing numerous landmark cases and historical formulations of criminal responsibility dating back to biblical times, the author traces the evolution of legal and psychiatric notions of culpability and the relationship between culpability and insanity.
xii, 436 pages ; 24 cm
9780471054252, 9780417054254, 0471054259, 0417054254
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The M'Naghten and other rules of criminal responsibility
Analysis of criminal responsibility
The meaning of "mental illness" in criminal responsibility
Clinical disorders of legal significance
The causal nexus between mental illness and impairment of cognition or control
Burden of proof and psychiatric testimony on insanity
Diminished capacity
Guilty but mentally ill
Disposition of the insanity acquittee
Psychiatric testimony on character and the inconsistent personality defense
Syndrome evidence
The attacks on psychiatric testimony
Psychiatric postdicting
Psychiatric testimony on credibility
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