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Mental Conditions Defences in the Criminal Law

Mental Conditions Defences in the Criminal Law

MacKay, R. D.

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice

General Law

ISBN10: 0198259956
ISBN13: 9780198259954
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Jan 4 1996
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Mental condition defenses have been used in several high-profile and controversial criminal trials in recent years. indeed, mental abnormality is increasingly an important yet complex source of defense within the criminal trial process.

The author offers a detailed critical analysis of those defenses within the Criminal Law where the accused relies on some form of mental abnormality as a source of defense. Topics covered include: the defenses of automatism, insanity, diminished responsibility, and infanticide; self-induced incapacity; and the doctrine of fault. It also includes a chapter on unfitness to plead, which although not a defense has been included because of its important relationship to mental disorder within the criminal process.

Drawing upon a wide variety of legal, psychiatric, and philosophical sources, this is a timely contribution to a controversial and complex topic.

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