Mental Condition Defences in the Criminal Law Hardback
by R. D. (Professor of Criminal Policy and Mental Health, Professor of Criminal Policy and Ment Mackay
Part of the Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:274 pages, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:09/11/1995
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- ISBN:9780198259954
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:274 pages, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:09/11/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198259954
