PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Convergent Validity, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Psychopathology
27 Sep 2016
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Past mental state: criminal responsibility (insanity: criminal responsibility. Actus reus : action or conduct that is a constituent element of a crime. Mens rea : the intention of knowledge or wrongdoing that constitutes part of a crime. Committed the crime, but not responsible for it. Did not commit the crime and not responsible for it. Incapable of forming a judgement upon the consequences of the act which he is about to do. Criminal lunatics act : mandates detention for criminally insane. Planned murder of prime minister of uk. Found to be unaware/unable to determine that the act was wrong not guilty (insanity) Laboring under defect of reason from disease of the mind -- did not know what he was doing was wrong . E. g. defendant cuts a woman"s throat under the delusion that he is cutting a loaf of bread. Knowledge that the act is [legally] wrong.
