10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MCNAGHTEN RULES»
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McNaghten Rules in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
McNaghten Rules and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Understanding Criminal Law
This same research found that a significant number of psychiatric reports
concluded that the defendant was insane but either did not mention, or did not
explain the defendant's mental condition in relation to, the McNaghten Rules (
Mackay and ...
Christopher M. V. Clarkson, 2005
2
The Parasomnias and Other Sleep-Related Movement Disorders
The McNaghten Rules (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, McNaughton)
arose fromtheattempted assassination of the British Prime Minister, Robert Peel,
in 1843 by Daniel McNaghten who instead killed Peel's private secretary.
McNaghten ...
Michael J. Thorpy, Giuseppe Plazzi, 2010
3
Riel and the Rebellion: 1885 Reconsidered
McNaghten Rules, in practice, furnished a strict standard that relatively few
defendants could meet, thus reducing the number of acquittals. This tended to
anger alienists, virtually all of whom were asylum directors and whose
professional ...
In Defense of the McNaghten Rules vation of resources and the freedom of future
Americans. There is also— need it be added?— the responsibility for murder,
rape, robbery and breach of the other simple duties enjoined in criminal law,
which ...
5
Moral Dilemmas in Real Life: Current Issues in Applied Ethics
35 In order to apply the idea of mens rea to mentally retarded or insane offenders
, Ten cites the McNaghten Rules which were used since 1843 for establishing a
defense of insanity. According to these rules, “it must be proven that the accused
...
This rule was derived from the McNaghten Rules/1 that were formulated in 1843.
Daniel McNaghten was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, a severe form of
mental illness in which the predominant symptom was an irrational and firmly ...
It left, however, the McNaghten Rules intact, so that in England the so-called right
and wrong test continues to be the exclusive criterion for the determination of
mental capacity to commit a crime. Neither of the alternative proposals of the
Royal ...
8
Death in Godshill: An Isle of Wight Tragedy
concerned that his calm and detached manner, together with his apparent
intelligence, would not have convinced the jury that he was insane according to
the McNaghten Rules. In order to establish a defence on the grounds of insanity,
the ...
9
The Jury and the Defense of Insanity
Hall, "McNaghten Rules: A Plea for Their Revision," 31 N. Z.L.J. 140 (1955). , "
McNaghten Rules and Proposed Alternatives," 49 A.B.A.J. 960 (1963). , "Mental
Disease and Criminal Responsibility — McNaghten v. Durham and the American
...
10
Worcestershire Murders
From this case arose the McNaghten Rules, which stated that 'in order to
establish a defence of insanity, it must be proved thatthe accused waslabouring
undersuch adefect of reasonfromdisease of the mindas not to know thenature
and quality ...
