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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"diminished responsibility"”.
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Diminished responsibility as a defence in Ireland having regard to the law in England, Scotland and Wales.
This thesis is an inquiry into the necessity of a diminished responsibility defence in Irish law. The inquiry examines the controversy surrounding each attempt to reformulate the insanity defence in the Anglo-American world. The thesis looks at the success of the English defence of diminished …
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Psychopathy in South African criminal case law between 1947 and 1999: an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law
… where mental illness is alleged, the issue of responsibility arises. During the period of the study, there were important legal developments in the criminal law relating to criminal responsibility, including the formulation of a statutory test for capacity in 1977 that did away with the …
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Why did they do it? Moral sensibilities, motivating reasons, and degrees of moral blame in culpable homicide
Humans have a long evolutionary history of violence. The psychological mechanisms underlying aggression can be viewed as “solutions” (albeit undesirable solutions) to any one of a number of adaptive problems that exist in social life. Sometimes that aggression takes the form of the killing of one …