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Insanity Defense
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Definition of 'Insanity Defense'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) Common names: Insanity Defense; Defense, Insanity; M'Naghten Rule; Rule, M'Naghten; McNaughton Rule; Rule, McNaughton; Criminal Insanity; Insanity, Criminal |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Social factors and forensic psychiatry in India.
30 Aug 2009 
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Forensic psychiatry is a psychiatric specialty yet to be recognized in many countries. This review evaluates the current status and practice of forensic psychiatry in India and the impact of social factors as they relate to this ... Read more...
Pathological gambling and criminality.
30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review research results on the relationship between pathological gambling and criminality, published in 2007 and 2008, in English and in Spanish. RECENT FINDINGS: An important association between pathological gambling and ... Read more...
Community outcomes of mentally disordered homicide offenders in Victoria.
30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to describe characteristics and post-release outcomes of Victorian homicide offenders under the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 (and/or its forerunner legislation) released ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Insanity Defense'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Social factors and forensic psychiatry in India. 30 Aug 2009
- Pathological gambling and criminality. 30 Aug 2009
- Community outcomes of mentally disordered homicide offenders in Victoria. 30 Jul 2009
- Current situation and future tasks for psychiatric services in Japanese prisons. 30 Jul 2009
- [Penrose's law: reality or fiction? Mental health system and the size of prison population - international overview] 10 Jul 2009
- [Infanticide by throwing the child from the 10th floor of a building] 29 Jun 2009
- Borderline personality disorder and related traits in forensic psychiatry. 29 Apr 2009
- Reliability of psychiatric evidence in serious criminal matters: fitness to stand trial and the defence of mental illness. 29 Apr 2009
- Constitutional law--substantive due process--Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that criminal defendant's best interests justify forcible medication.--Commonwealth v. Sam, 952 A.2d 565 (Pa. 2008).
29 Apr 2009 - Sleep-related automatism and the law. 30 Mar 2009
- Criminal madness: cultural iconography and insanity. 30 Mar 2009
- Mental disorder as the cause of a crime. 19 Mar 2009
- [Patients with schizophrenia in forensic-psychiatric hospitals (section 63 German Penal Code) in North Rhine-Westphalia] 14 Feb 2009
- Correspondence: the epidemiology of abnormal homicide and murder followed by suicide. 10 Feb 2009
- Forensic mental health orders: orders without borders. 30 Jan 2009
- Insanity in Babylonian sources. 30 Dec 2008
- Disability guideline, role conflicts, and treatment records. 30 Dec 2008
- Indiana v. Davis: revisiting due process rights of permanently incompetent defendants. 30 Dec 2008
- Commentary: inadequacy of the categorical approach of the DSM for diagnosing female inmates with borderline personality disorder and/or PTSD. 30 Dec 2008
- The case that has psychiatrists running scared: Ahmed v. Stefaniu. 30 Dec 2008
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Technical information about 'Insanity Defense'
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)
Descriptor UI: D007298
Alternative terms: Insanity Defense; Defense, Insanity; M'Naghten Rule; Rule, M'Naghten; McNaughton Rule; Rule, McNaughton; Criminal Insanity; Insanity, Criminal;
Related Mesh Headings: Mental Competency;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; statistics & numerical data;
Tree Number: F04.096.544.335.528; I01.198.780.937.469.528; I01.880.604.583.310.528; N03.706.535.351.528;
Online Note: use FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY to search MCNAUGHTON RULE 1969-84; use JURISPRUDENCE, PSYCHIATRIC to search MCNAUGHTON RULE 1968
History Note: 91(85); was see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1985-90; was MCNAUGHTON RULE see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1969-84; was MCNAUGHTON RULE see under JURISPRUDENCE, PSYCHIATRIC 1968