Remarks on Criminal Responsibility in Relation to Insanity

Psychiatric aspects of criminal responsibility: insanity and mitigation.

Forensic psychiatry expertise may be useful to criminal courts in several ways, including evaluating competence (e.g., to stand trial, waive Miranda rights, confess, plead, represent oneself, or be sentenced), assessing responsibility for alleged criminal behavior, and clarifying mental or psychosocial factors that may mitigate criminal charges or the form and severity of punishment. This colum...

On Criminal Insanity

On Criminal Responsibility

\ The records of our criminal jurisprudence are fertile in instances in which the most atrocious crimes are perpetrated 1^ persons who are absolved from responsibility on the ground of insanity. The mind is horrified at the tale of a mother cutting the throats of her helpless infants as they lie slumbering in their beds, or of another parent hurrying away her progeny in the darkness of the nigh...

The Legal Doctrine of Responsibility in Cases of Insanity, Connected with Alleged Criminal Acts

I WILL, without any prefatory remarks, and with great submission to those whom I have the honour to address, endeavour to> direct the attention of the Society to the following salient and relevant questions connected with the important subject selected for discussion. I will consider seriatim:? 1st. The nature of insanity in its medico-legal relations. 2nd. The legal doctrine of responsibility ...

Critical Remarks on the "Plea of Insanity"

fut 1 ' J1' 'i ^ a *n I)0sscssi?uhe got nearer the place where the win . i Was PerPctrated, his look appeared, to the witnesses who saw him, Wa T] an moro frantic. lie was seen looking into the water, where the body thrown after it was committed, in a raised and insane manner. He was n near the spot, in a subsequent part of the same day, moving about like a hanged person, and declared he was Si...