Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xii, 436 pages; 24 cm

Subject

1. Insanity defense
2. Criminal liability
3. Evidence, Expert
4. Insanity (Law)
5. Criminal psychology
6. Mental illness
7. Insanity Defense
8. Criminal Psychology
9. Expert Testimony
10. Mental Disorders
11. insanity
12. mental disorders
13. Mental illness
14. Criminal psychology
15. Criminal liability
16. Evidence, Expert
17. Insanity defense
18. Psychiatrisches Gutachten
19. Schuldunfähigkeit
20. Gerechtelijke psychiatrie
21. Schuld
22. Strafrechtspleging
23. USA

Contents

1. The M'Naghten and other rules of criminal responsibility -- Analysis of criminal responsibility -- The meaning of "mental illness" in criminal responsibility -- Clinical disorders of legal significance -- The causal nexus between mental illness and impairment of cognition or control -- Burden of proof and psychiatric testimony on insanity -- Diminished capacity -- Guilty but mentally ill -- Disposition of the insanity acquittee -- Psychiatric testimony on character and the inconsistent personality defense -- Syndrome evidence -- The attacks on psychiatric testimony -- Psychiatric postdicting -- Psychiatric testimony on credibility.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "A Wiley-Interscience publication".

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.