Criminal Insanity: Concepts and Evidence

The article presents an analytical model of possible legal concepts of criminal insanity and highlights evidential aspects of these concepts. The framework is used to differentiate between insanity rules from different jurisdictions, and to explain the recent amending of the Norwegian rule on crimin...

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Published in:Bergen journal of criminal law and criminal justice 2019-09, Vol.7 (1), p.78-96
Main Author: Løvlie, Anders
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The article presents an analytical model of possible legal concepts of criminal insanity and highlights evidential aspects of these concepts. The framework is used to differentiate between insanity rules from different jurisdictions, and to explain the recent amending of the Norwegian rule on criminal insanity. The arguments made are general and of relevance to all types of legal regulations on divergent mental states.
ISSN:1894-4183
1894-4183
DOI:10.15845/bjclcj.v7i1.2881