Automatism, Insanity, and the Psychology of Criminal Responsibility: A Philosophical Inquiry

by Robert F. Schopp

Book Overview

This is a book about the role that psychological impairment should play in a theory of criminal liability. Criminal guilt in the Anglo-American legal tradition requires both that the defendant committed some proscribed act and did so with intent, knowledge, or recklessness. The second requirement corresponds to the intuitive idea that people should not be punished for something they did not do on purpose or if they did not realize what they were doing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052140150X
• ISBN13: 9780521401500
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"