Criminal Insanity, Psychosis and Impaired Reality Testing in Norwegian Law

Criminal Law: Commitment and Release of Criminal Defendants Acquitted by Reason of Insanity

WHEN THE DEFENDANT in a criminal case is found not guilty by reason of insanity,' a proper solution to his disposition seeks to satisfy three possibly conflicting considerations. Society demands that dangerous persons be prevented from causing further harm; legal tradition demands that liberty be taken away only by due process of law5 modem scientific knowledge demands that the psychiatric aspe...

Weak-Minded Responsibility in Iranian Criminal Law and Egyptian Law

In Iran's criminal law, humans are not only divided into wise or insane they are also persons who, on the one hand, do not fall under Article 149 of the Islamic Penal Code in the definition of insane persons and on the other hand, they are not wise, the rational age of these people is lower than their child's physical age that Affected by mental disorder and mental retardation. Article 91 of th...

On Criminal Insanity

Reducing stigma of criminal insanity

Andrew Axer1, Robert C. Beckett2, Jennifer Jones3: 1Johnson Creek Secure Treatment Facility, Columbia Care Services, Inc. 2808 SE Balfour Street Milwaukie, OR 97222; 2Columbia Care Services, Inc. 2015 NW 507 Flanders St., Portland, Oregon 97209 USA; 3Office 3587 Heathrow Way Medford, OR 97504; Correspondence address: Andrew Axer, Columbia Care Services, Inc.; 2015 NW 507 Flanders St., Portland,...

Unpacking insanity defence standards: An experimental study of rationality and control tests in criminal law

The present study investigated the impact of different legal standards on mock juror decisions concerning whether a defendant was guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity. Undergraduate students (N = 477) read a simulated case summary involving a murder case and were asked to make an insanity determination. The cases differed in terms of the condition of the defendant (rationality deficit or ...