Mental Insanity Assessment of Pedophilia: The Importance of the Trans-Disciplinary Approach. Reflections on Two Cases [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018 A 60 plus-year-old male was charged with pedophilia for forcing a child to touch him inappropriately near a primary school fence. In another case, a 70 plus-year-old male was charged with pedophilia for intimately touching a boy in a cinema.
Cristina Scarpazza, Giuseppe Sartori
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Criminal Insanity, Psychosis and Impaired Reality Testing in Norwegian Law
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2019 How mental disorder relates to criminal insanity is a contested matter. Norway has a tradition of using a ‘medical model’ for the definition of criminal insanity that is unique in an international perspective.
Linda Gröning +2 more
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Are symptoms assessed differently for schizophrenia and other psychoses in legal insanity evaluations of violent crimes? [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Background Forensic evaluations of legal insanity include the experts’ assessment of symptoms present at the mental state examination (MSE) and the mental state at the time of offense (MSO). Delusions and hallucinations are most important.
Pia Jorde Løvgren +4 more
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Insanity defense: Past, present, and future
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2015 Insanity defense is primarily used in criminal prosecutions. It is based on the assumption that at the time of the crime, the defendant was not suffering from severe mental illness and therefore, was incapable of appreciating the nature of the crime and ...
Suresh Bada Math +2 more
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Legal Insanity: Towards an Understanding of Free Will Through Feeling in Modern Europe [PDF]
Rechtsgeschichte, 2017 The degree to which insanity or mental infirmity can be instrumentalized in legal debate is shaped by understandings of what insanity is, the currency of a specific diagnosis, as well as official and unofficial symptomatologies, all of which render the ...
Daphne Rozenblatt
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‘Noisy, restless and incoherent’: puerperal insanity at Dundee Lunatic Asylum [PDF]
History of Psychiatry, 2017 This research is supported by the Strathmartine Trust Scottish History Scholarship, St Andrews.Puerperal insanity has been described as a nineteenth-century diagnosis, entrenched in contemporary expectations of proper womanly behaviour.
Morag Allan Campbell
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Plausible subjective experience versus fallible corroborative evidence: The formulation of insanity in Nigerian criminal courts [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 Insanity as a defence against criminal conduct has been known since antiquity. Going through significant reformulations across centuries, different jurisdictions across the globe, including Nigeria, have come to adopt various strains of the insanity ...
Adegboyega Ogunwale +3 more
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Frendak to Phenis to Breivik: An Examination of the Imposed Insanity Defense
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2014 The imposition of the insanity defense is a complicated psycho-legal scenario. Globally, definitions of insanity differ from country to country. In a multitude of cases, a determination of insanity at the time of a criminal act means the offender will ...
William Donald Richie +5 more
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Guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity? a comparative study of murderers referred for psychiatric examination by court order [PDF]
Health & Justice, 2023 Background Some murders are committed under the influence of a psychotic state resulting from a mental disorder, mainly schizophrenia. According to the law in many countries, people with mental disorders do not have criminal responsibility.
Anat Yaron Antar
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A Study Of Association In Insanity [PDF]
, 1910 The normal range of reaction in response to any of our stimulus words is largely confined within narrow limits. The frequency tables compiled from test records given by one thousand normal subjects comprise over ninety per cent of the normal range in the
F. L. Wells, G. H. Kent, A. Rosanoff
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