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Excuses and Lack of Capacity

Marise Cremona

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There are a number of general defences which apply to all criminal offences. Intoxication is usually regarded as a general defence although as we shall see it is hardly a defence at all to some crimes. Diminished responsibility is discussed in this chapter together with insanity, because of the close links between them, although diminished responsibility is a defence only to murder.

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Key concepts: Diminished responsibility, Criminal responsibility, Insanity, Criminology, Insanity defense, Psychology, Political science, Law