Psychiatry and criminal culpability /

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Main Author: Slovenko, Ralph
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Wiley, c1995
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Table of Contents:
  • 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