Mental Conditions Defences in the Criminal Law

✍ Scribed by R. D. Mackay

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 278
Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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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