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Free will and psychiatric assessments of criminal responsibility: a parallel with informed consent

In some criminal cases a forensic psychiatrist is asked to make an assessment of the state of mind of the defendant at the time of the legally relevant act. A considerable number of people seem to hold that the basis for this assessment is that free will is required for legal responsibility, and tha...

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Autor principal: Meynen, Gerben
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20424919
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11019-010-9250-7