PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ant-Zen, Risk Assessment, Actus Reus

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Stuart Kamenetsky

Document Summary

Plan for today: fitness to stand trial, ncrmd, criminal commitment, civil commitment, questions about the test. How will the justice system deal with john: john is an 18 year-old male suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. He believes that aliens are trying to control him through the neighbour"s cats, and consequently kills one of them with a hammer. He claims that jesus christ told him to kill the agent of the aliens to protect the world from invasion. John has been arrested for trespassing, breaking and entering, and cruelty to animals. Raising the issue of fitness: the party raising the issue has the burden of proving the issue of unfitness (s. 672. 23, fitness can be raised at various points between time of arrest to sentencing. Fitness to stand trial: unfit to stand trial: unable on account of mental disorder to conduct a defence at any stage of the proceedings; in particular, unable to: a) b) c)