Insanity Psychiatry and Criminal Responsibility

by Finbarr McAuley

Insanity, Psychiatry and Criminal Responsibility is a unique attempt to evaluate the insanity defence from the standpoint of modern psychiatry and neurophysiology. The book's leitmotif is that the modern psychiatric conception of mental illness as a cognitive failing is essential to the development of a sound criterion of exculpatory insanity in the criminal law; but the author is severely critical of the degree of influence exercised by psychiatrists over the disposition and detention of persons acquitted on the grounds of insanity.

248 pages, Hardcover

Published December 12, 1993