Mental Condition Defences in the Criminal Law

Informationen zum Autor R. D. Mackay, Professor of Criminal Policy and Mental Health, De Montfort University, Leicester Klappentext Mental condition defences 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 defence within the criminal trial process. The author offers a detailed critical analysis of those defences within the Criminal Law where the accused relies on some form of mental abnormality as a source of defence. Topics covered include: the defences 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 defence 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. Zusammenfassung Mental abnormality is becoming an increasingly important yet complex source of defence within the criminal trial process. This book contains a timely discussion of how the criminal law treats and applies defences such as insanity and diminished responsibility.

Product details

• Authors: R D MacKay, R. D. Mackay, R.d. Mackay
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.1995
• EAN: 9780198259954
• ISBN: 978-0-19-825995-4
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice; Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice; Oxford Monographs on Criminal
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