MHS-2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Marshal, Mitigating Factor, Burglary
27 Feb 2019
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Neuro law- outcome of decades of rising distrust in psychiatry in the courts and public opinion. Psychiatric diagnosis is to a large extent based on medical impressions drawn from subjective analysis and filtered through the experience of the diagnostician. Want more objective science, neuroscience is the response. Limit input to the psychiatric aspects of the case leaving the legal decisions up to the judges and juries. First thing you do is see the legal guidelines. Mental disease or defect is a legal concept. Capacity to distinguish between right and wrong is a legal concept. Only relevant legal relationship is between crime and psychotic disorder. Medical - serious psychosis ; mental defect - learning disability. Waits until dark, uses gloves, marsk, or disguise, conceals a weapon, takes victim to isolated area, uses a false alibi or alias, threatens to kill if victim tells police. Relationship between crime and mental illness - causation.
