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Descriptor English: Insanity Defense
Descriptor Spanish: Defensa por Insania
Descriptor defensa por enfermedad mental
Entry term(s) inimputabilidad por insania
regla de M'Naghten
regla de McNaughton
Scope note: Concepto legal, que determina que una persona no es criminalmente responsable si en el momento de la realización de un acto criminal sufría tal defecto de racionalidad, a causa de una enfermedad mental, que le hacía desconocedor de la naturaleza y características de dicho acto, o si conociéndolo desconocía su maldad. (Traducción libre del original: Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Defesa por Insanidade
Descriptor French: Irresponsabilité pénale
Entry term(s): Criminal Insanity
Defense, Insanity
Insanity, Criminal
M'Naghten Rule
McNaughton Rule
Rule, M'Naghten
Rule, McNaughton
Tree number(s): F04.096.544.335.528
I01.198.780.937.469.528
I01.880.604.583.310.528
N03.706.535.351.528
SP9.242.569.897.560.289
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007298
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)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
HI history
SN statistics & numerical data
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1985-90; was MCNAUGHTON RULE see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1969-84; was MCNAUGHTON RULE see under JURISPRUDENCE, PSYCHIATRIC 1968
Online Note: use FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY to search MCNAUGHTON RULE 1969-84; use JURISPRUDENCE, PSYCHIATRIC to search MCNAUGHTON RULE 1968
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
Related: Imputability DeCS
Mental Competency MeSH
DeCS ID: 7472
Unique ID: D007298
NLM Classification: W 740
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Insanity Defense - Preferred
Concept UI M0011378
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)
Preferred term Insanity Defense
Entry term(s) Defense, Insanity
M'Naghten Rule - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0334324
Preferred term M'Naghten Rule
Entry term(s) Rule, M'Naghten
McNaughton Rule - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0011379
Preferred term McNaughton Rule
Entry term(s) Rule, McNaughton
Criminal Insanity - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0334323
Preferred term Criminal Insanity
Entry term(s) Insanity, Criminal



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