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The psychiatrist's guide to right and wrong: judicial standards of wrongfulness since M'Naghten
1988
The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
In insanity defense litigation, the precise legal definition of wrongfulness is often critically important. References in the M'Naghten Rules to the appropriate standard of wrongfulness were ambiguous, resulting in a divergence of judicial opinion as to whether wrongfulness means legal wrong, subjective moral wrong, or objective moral wrong. This article reviews and analyzes these three judicial standards of wrongfulness in the context of case law from jurisdictions that follow each of the
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