Concept information
Preferred term
criminal responsibility
Definition
- The concept of criminal responsibility refers to the quality or state of being morally, legally, or mentally accountable for the intentional commission of an act prohibited and punishable under criminal law. The principle of individual autonomy whereby the individual is endowed with free will and the independent capacity to choose his or her conduct is a central principle in modern criminal law. [Source: Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics; Criminal Responsibility]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- American Bar Association Resolution on Mental Disability and the Death Penalty
- assessment of criminal responsibility
- automatism
- battered woman syndrome
- corporate criminal liability
- defenses to criminal responsbility
- delusions
- diminished capacity
- dissociative identity disorder
- evaluation of aggravating and mitigating circumstances in capital cases
- extreme emotional disturbance
- guilty but mentally ill verdict
- hallucinations
- Insanity Defense Reform Act
- mens rea and actus reus
- mental illness and the death penalty
- mental retardation and the death penalty
- M'Naghten standard
- psychotic disorders
- Rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales
- testimony on battered women syndrome
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/criminal_responsibility
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