Legal insanity : explorations in psychiatry, law, and ethics /

This book examines core issues related to legal insanity, integrating perspectives from psychiatry, law, and ethics. Various criteria for insanity are analyzed and recommendations for forensic psychiatric and legal practice are offered. Many legal systems have an insanity defense, in one form or ano...

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Main Author: Meynen, Gerben, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2016
Series:International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v.71
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Legal insanity standards: their structure and elements
  • 3. Arguments against the insanity defense and responses
  • 4. Lack of free will and irrationality
  • 5. Competent and compromised decision-making
  • 6. Neurolaw: challenges and opportunities
  • 7. Issues to consider when revising legal insanity
  • 8. Concluding observations on the present and future of insanity