insanite

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(Tıp) insanity
The state of being insane; madness
- A defendant that claims insanity admits to committing the act, but denies criminal responsibility for the act
= strictly a legal term, not a clinical term, the definition of which varies by jurisdiction In most jurisdictions, this legal concept means a severe mental illness extant at the time the crime was committed such that the illness substantially impaired the defendant's capacity to understand and appreciate the moral wrongfulness of the act A small minority of jurisdictions differentiate moral and legal wrongfulness Another minority of jurisdictions have a two pronged definition that includes the aforementioned wrongfulness or knowledge prong and add an alternative criteria of inability to conform conduct to the requirements of the law, that is, the illness rendered the defendant unable to behave or act in conformance with the law, regardless of whether or not the defendant understood the moral or legal wrongfulness
A legal definition concerning a person’s inability to tell right from wrong, ability to understand legal proceedings, or whether the person is a direct danger to self or others (p 540)
n Persistent mental disorder or derangement (Covey) Doing what you've always done and expect better results (IC) The inability to respond appropriately to the situation at hand
Unsoundness of mind that prevents a person from entering certain legal relationships and releases a person from criminal or civil responsibility
{i} madness, craziness, lunacy, mental derangement; extreme foolishness, foolhardiness
The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy
relatively permanent disorder of the mind
legal term that implies a lack of responsibility for one's behavior
Insanity is the state of being insane. The defence pleaded insanity, but the defendant was found guilty and sentenced. = madness
Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility
The failure to deal with random motion The degree to which one is acting out fixed ideas from the past
Legal concept denoting a mental disturbance, due to which a person lacks criminal responsibility for an alleged crime and hence cannot be convicted of the crime
legal term indicating that a person cannot be held accountable for his/her actions because of mental illness
To keep doing the same things and expect different results
disapproval If you describe a decision or an action as insanity, you think it is very foolish. the final financial insanity of the 1980s. In criminal law, a disease, defect, or condition of the mind that renders one unable to understand the nature of a criminal act or the fact that it is wrong. Tests of insanity are not intended as medical diagnoses but rather only as determinations of whether a person may be held criminally responsible for his or her actions. The most enduring definition of insanity in Anglo-American law was that proposed by Alexander Cockburn (1843). Many U.S. states and several courts have adopted a standard under which the accused must lack "substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the (Hukuk) " Some states have abolished the insanity plea, and others allow a finding of "guilty but mentally ill." See also diminished responsibility
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