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| Title: | Incapacity and Insanity: Do We Need the Insanity Defence? |
| Author(s): | Duff, R A |
| Contact Email: | r.a.duff@stir.ac.uk |
| Editor(s): | Livings, B Reed, A Wake, N |
| Citation: | Duff RA (2015) Incapacity and Insanity: Do We Need the Insanity Defence?. In: Livings B, Reed A & Wake N (eds.) Mental Condition Defences and the Criminal Justice System: Perspectives from Law and Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 159-177. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/mental-condition-defences-and-the-criminal-justice-system |
| Keywords: | Law Commission insanity defence incapacity |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| Date Deposited: | 8-Jul-2015 |
| Abstract: | A critical discussion of the English Law Commission's Discussion Paper 'Criminal Liability: Insanity and Automatism' suggesting that the logic of theirt argument points towards abolishing the insnaity defence in favour of an "incapacity' defence. |
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