Title: Psychiatric aspects of justification, excuse and mitigation in Anglo-American criminal law /
Authors: Buchanan, Alec.
Publisher: J. Kingsley,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Criminal Law; Forensic Psychiatry; Insanity (Law) United States.; Insanity (Law) Great Britain.
Contents: Preliminaries -- The theory of justification and excuse -- Psychiatric aspects of mitigation -- How can mental states excuse? -- What does the law allow to excuse? -- Drawbacks of the present provision -- Alternatives to the present provision.