Justifications for the insanity defence in Great Britain and the United States: the conflicting rationales of morality and compassion

Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1981;9(2):100-15.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Commitment of Mentally Ill / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Conflict, Psychological
  • Crime
  • Criminal Law*
  • Forensic Psychiatry*
  • Human Rights
  • Humans
  • Insanity Defense*
  • Jurisprudence*
  • Mental Disorders / psychology
  • Morals*
  • Punishment
  • United Kingdom
  • United States