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Insanity Defense |
A legal concept that an accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of committing the act, the person was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act done or if the act was known, to not have known that what was done was wrong. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed) |
Criminal Insanity,M'Naghten Rule,McNaughton Rule,Defense, Insanity,Insanity, Criminal,Rule, M'Naghten,Rule, McNaughton |
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Criminal Law |
A branch of law that defines criminal offenses, regulates the apprehension, charging and trial of suspected persons, and fixes the penalties and modes of treatment applicable to convicted offenders. |
Criminal Justice,Criminal Laws,Justice, Criminal,Law, Criminal,Laws, Criminal |
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| D005555 |
Forensic Psychiatry |
Psychiatry in its legal aspects. This includes criminology, penology, commitment of mentally ill, the psychiatrist's role in compensation cases, the problems of releasing information to the court, and of expert testimony. |
Jurisprudence, Psychiatric,Psychiatric Jurisprudence,Psychiatry, Forensic |
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Homicide |
The killing of one person by another. |
Murder,Killing,Wrongful Death,Death, Wrongful,Deaths, Wrongful,Homicides,Killings,Murders,Wrongful Deaths |
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Humans |
Members of the species Homo sapiens. |
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man |
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Automatism |
Automatic, mechanical, and apparently undirected behavior which is outside of conscious control. |
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United States |
A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO. |
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