Paul, G.M. and Lange, K.W. (1992) Epilepsy and Criminal-Law. Medicine Science and the Law, 32 (2). pp. 160-166. ISSN 0025-8024.
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Abstract
Automatic episodes of aggressive or violent behaviour may occur during or after an epileptic fit. Epileptic automatisms are regarded by the law as `insane automatisms'. A person who commits a crime during the course of a seizure is therefore legally insane and must be committed to a psychiatric hospital. The law of insanity is inappropriate when applied to epileptic automatisms. A change in the law is therefore necessary to remove epileptic offenders from the legal ambit of insanity, and to save them the threat of detention in a mental hospital as a consequence of their crime.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine K Law |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Law School |
| Depositing User: | M. Nasiriavanaki |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2009 10:50 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2009 10:50 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/22396 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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