Criminal law and mental illness
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Mental Disorder and Criminal Law
from mistakes and learn from experience, to engage in logical reasoning, to control impulses, and to understand the reactions of others . . . . Their deficiencies do not warrant an exemption from criminal sanctions, but they do diminish their personal culpability . . . . With respect to retribution—the interest in seeing that the offender gets his “just deserts”—the severity of the appropriate ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sociologija
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0038-0318,2406-0712
DOI: 10.2298/soc1502219s