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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Forensic Psychiatry > Insanity Defense
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Forensic Psychiatry > Insanity Defense
Health Occupations > Medicine > Forensic Medicine > Forensic Psychiatry > Insanity Defense
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Criminology > Forensic Sciences > Forensic Medicine > Forensic Psychiatry > Insanity Defense
Health Occupations > Medicine > Psychiatry > Forensic Psychiatry > Insanity Defense
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psychiatry > Forensic Psychiatry > Insanity Defense

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Insanity Defense  

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  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A legal concept that an accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of committing the act, the person was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act done or if the act was known, to not have known that what was done was wrong. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed)

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In other languages

  • Irresponsabilité pénale

    French

  • Défense fondée sur l'aliénation mentale
  • Irresponsabilité pénale d'un malade mental
  • Irresponsabilité pénale pour aliénation mentale

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