Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 581 g
Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 581 g
Reihe: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
ISBN: 978-0-19-825995-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford
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.
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.
