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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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How does india decide insanity pleas? A review of high court judgments in the past decade
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2019 Background: The Section 84 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) describes how Indian courts have to deal with 'the act of an unsound person'. This study was undertaken with the objectives of estimating the success rate of insanity pleas in Indian High Courts ...
Parthasarathy Ramamurthy +2 more
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Alcohol-related crime or no crime because of the perpetrator’s (factual) insanity?
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2021 The criminal liability of the perpetrator of a criminal act is not only conditioned on the objective features of the criminal act but also on the subjective ones (intentional or unintentional behavior).
Anna Danuta Golonka
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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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اختلال شخصیت دوقطبی از منظر حدود مسئولیت کیفری [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī, 2018 Bipolar Personality Disorder from the Viewpoint of the Criminal Liability Seyyed Mansour Mirsaeidi[1]– Nabiollah Gholami[2] (Received: 23/ 05/ 2017 - Accepted: 8/ 11/ 2016) Abstract From the view of Iran's criminal law, a person suffering from ...
Nabiollah Gholami +1 more
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Criminal Insanity: Concepts and Evidence
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2019 The article presents an analytical model of possible legal concepts of criminal insanity and highlights evidential aspects of these concepts. The framework is used to differentiate between insanity rules from different jurisdictions, and to explain the ...
Anders Løvlie
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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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Criminal Liability of People With Mental Disorders: Selected Issues
Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2022 The issue of criminal liability in different legal systems and of the perpetrator’s sanity and mental disorders, has received much attention of researchers from different scientific disciplines. Of many important aspects relevant to this topic, the paper
Krzysztof Mikołajczuk
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Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: Homicidal offenders with schizophrenia who went through psychiatric evaluations are a small but significant group during a criminal appeal. Aim: Our aims are to explore whether the types of crime, such as homicide or not, would be related to ...
Hui-Yi Wang +5 more
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Historical origins of the insanity defense in Sri Lanka and India
Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry, 2019 In Sri Lanka, the legislative requirements of the insanity defense are contained within its Penal Code. Wording of this section is identical to the original version of the Indian Penal Code enacted in 1860 by the colonial British administration of India.
L. A. de Alwis
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