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L’aliénation mentale devant les juges égyptiens pendant la période de tutelle britannique

open access: yesClio@Themis, 2022
Law and medicine have known a specific development, in Egypt, at the beginning of the 19th century. The different Egyptian courts dealt with cases that implied a psychiatric dimension in both penal and civil proceedings. Through the journal al-Muhâmâ, it
Ayang Utriza Yakin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Narrow Definition of Insanity Opined by Medical Experts in the Oliver Smith Will Case in 1847

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2011
Physicians specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of insane people (alienists) emerged in the early 19th century and offered their expertise for the courts to consider in judgments of mental competence.
Jeremia Heinik, Kenneth I. Shulman
doaj   +1 more source

PUERPERAL INSANITY AND INSANITY OF LACTATION [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1883
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Plausible subjective experience versus fallible corroborative evidence: The formulation of insanity in Nigerian criminal courts

open access: yesFrontiers 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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The Current State of the Insanity Defense in Virginia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Based upon British common law and legal precedents, the American legal system allows individuals with severe mental instability to plead not guilty by reason of insanity when charged with a criminal offense.
Gordon, Jacob
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“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of premenstrual syndrome on criminal responsibility of women [PDF]

open access: yesCrimen (Beograd)
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a medical condition that occurs in women a few days before menstruation and is accompanied by a wide range of psychological and physical symptoms.
Stanisavljević Jelena
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Guilty But Mentally Ill: The Ethical Dilemma Of Mental Illness As A Tool Of The Prosecution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
While other jurisdictions use guilty but mentally ill as a compromise verdict to fill the gap between guilty by reason of insanity and a guilty verdict after an unsuccessful insanity defense, Alaska has transformed the status into a prosecutorial tool
Johansen, Lauren G.
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