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Psychiatric Criminology: Is It A Valid Marriage? The Legal View, Jerome Hall
Psychiatric Criminology: Is It A Valid Marriage? The Legal View, Jerome Hall
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Science, Common Sense, And Criminal Law Reform, Jerome Hall
Science, Common Sense, And Criminal Law Reform, Jerome Hall
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Professor Hall advocates a reappraisal of the current trend in criminal law of substituting expert psychiatric testimony for common-sense determinations of insanity based on the long experience of the criminal-law tradition. Holding that the average layman is as competent to recognize extreme mental illness as the psychiatric expert, the author discusses the doctrine of the "irresistible impulse" and submits that the current departures from the M'Naghten rule tend to "substitute the ideology of a particular group of psychiatrists for the principle of moral responsibility." Professor Hall suggests that realistic reform cannot be achieved without considering the "moral life and its …
The M'Naghten Rules And Proposed Alternatives, Jerome Hall
The M'Naghten Rules And Proposed Alternatives, Jerome Hall
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Responding to overt and implied criticism of the M'Naghten Rules for determining legal insanity to excuse criminal responsibility, Mr. Hall proposes a national seminar or study by judges of the diverse and perplexing problems they must face in deciding issues in this field. He thinks that M'Naghten needs repair rather than replacement and that a rough consensus might be attainable.
Responsibility And Law: In Defense Of The Mcnaghten Rules, Jerome Hall
Responsibility And Law: In Defense Of The Mcnaghten Rules, Jerome Hall
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Psychiatry And Criminal Responsibility, Jerome Hall
Psychiatry And Criminal Responsibility, Jerome Hall
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Mental Disease And Criminal Responsibility, Jerome Hall
Mental Disease And Criminal Responsibility, Jerome Hall
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