TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buchanan,Alec
TI  - Psychiatric Aspects of Justification, Excuse and Mitigation in Anglo-American Criminal Law: The Jurisprudence of Mental Abnormality in Anglo-American Criminal Law
T2  - Forensic Focus Series
SN  - 9781846420054
AV  - KF9242 -- .B83 2000eb 
U1  - 345.73/04 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London
PB  - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
KW  - Insanity (Law) -- Great Britain
KW  - Insanity (Law) -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Psychiatric Aspects of Justification, Excuse and Mitigation in Anglo-American Criminal Law -- Contents -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. The Theory of Justification and Excuse -- 3. Psychiatric Aspects of Mitigation -- 4. How Can Mental States Excuse? -- 5. What Does the Law Allow to Excuse? -- 6. Drawbacks of the Present Provision -- 7. Alternatives to the Present Provision -- 8. Summary -- CASES CITED -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX
N2  - Violent crimes committed by the mentally disordered attract academic and public attention. They raise issues of moral responsibility and public protection. This study systematically analyses the principles underlying those legal and medical devices which enable the courts to make special arrangements for the mentally disordered
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