精神病患者在法律上是精神错乱的吗?

IF 0.7 Q4 ETHICS
A. Jefferson, K. Sifferd
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引用次数: 12

摘要

精神病患者是否负有刑事和道德责任的问题在文献中引起了重大争议。在本文中,我们讨论了精神病诊断与刑事责任的相关性。有人认为,弄清楚精神病是否是一种精神疾病至关重要,因为这是精神病患者有资格通过法律精神错乱辩护获得豁免的先决条件。但即使精神病被视为一种精神疾病,单凭这一点也不足以表明精神错乱辩护是适用的;还必须证明,由于这种疾病,在道德理解或控制方面存在特定的缺陷。在这篇论文中,我们表明,精神病的诊断通常不会表明被告有资格获得精神错乱辩护。这是因为被纳入诊断的个体群体是如此的异质,以至于尽管一些精神病患者在情感和控制方面确实表现出了显著的障碍,这可能会影响他们的责任,但许多精神病患者并没有以与责任相关的方式丧失行为能力。
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Are Psychopaths Legally Insane?
The question of whether psychopaths are criminally and morally responsible has generated significant controversy in the literature. In this paper, we discuss what relevance a psychopathy diagnosis has for criminal responsibility. It has been argued that figuring out whether psychopathy is a mental illness is of fundamental importance, because it is a precondition for psychopaths’ eligibility to be excused via the legal insanity defense. But even if psychopathy counts as a mental illness, this alone is not sufficient to show the insanity defense is applicable; it must also be shown that, as a result of the illness, specific deficits in moral understanding or control are present. In this paper, we show that a diagnosis of psychopathy will generally not indicate that a defendant is eligible for an insanity defense. This is because the group of individuals subsumed under the diagnosis is so heterogeneous that while some psychopaths do show significant impairments in affect and control which may impact on their responsibility, many psychopaths are not incapacitated in a way relevant to responsibility.
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European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy Arts and Humanities-Philosophy
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