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Health Occupations > Medicine > Forensic Medicine > Forensic Psychiatry > Insanity Defense
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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psychiatry > Forensic Psychiatry > Insanity Defense
Health Occupations > Medicine > Psychiatry > Forensic Psychiatry > Insanity Defense

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Insanity Defense  

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  • Criminal Insanity
  • Insanity, Criminal
  • McNaughton Rule
  • M'Naghten Rule
  • Rule, McNaughton
  • Rule, M'Naghten

Scope note

  • A legal concept that an accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of committing the act, the person was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act done or if the act was known, to not have known that what was done was wrong. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed)

History note

  • 91(85); was see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1985-90; was MCNAUGHTON RULE see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1969-84; was MCNAUGHTON RULE see under JURISPRUDENCE, PSYCHIATRIC 1968

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