Insanity

In Larry Alexander & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law. Springer Verlag. pp. 385-419 (2019)
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This chapter critically discusses the traditional law of insanity, according to which an accused is insane if, as a result of mental disease or defect, he lacks the capacity to know the law or to conform his conduct to it. It then critically discusses an alternative proposal, according to which an accused is insane if he is in some sense irrational.

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