Legal Insanity: Explorations in Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics

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Gerben Meynen

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International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

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This book examines core issues related to legal insanity, integrating perspectives from psychiatry, law, and ethics. Various criteria for insanity are analyzed and recommendations for forensic psychiatric and legal practice are offered. Many legal systems have an insanity defense, in one form or another. Still, it remains unclear exactly when and why mental disorders affect a person’s moral or criminal responsibility. Questions addressed in this book include: Why should insanity be a component of our legal system? What should be the criteria for an insanity defense? What would be the reasons for abolishing it? Who should bear the burden of proof? Furthermore, the book discusses the impact neurosciences may have on psychiatric and psychological evaluations of defendants as well as on legal decisions about insanity.

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Gerben Meynen received a Ph.D. in Philosophy and in Medicine. He is an endowed professor of Forensic Psychiatry (Tilburg University) and an endowed professor of Ethics and Psychiatry (VU University Amsterdam). Since 2006, he has been a psychiatrist at GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam.

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November 17th, 2016

Author

Gerben Meynen

Series

International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

Pages

196

Edition

1st ed. 2016

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Professional & Vocational

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XIII, 196 p.

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155x235x13

ISBN-13

9783319447193

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25630461

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