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Title

Questions of insanity in some foreign countries

Authors

Schipanova Nadezhda Ivanovna, associate Professor of criminal law, criminology and penal law, South Ural state University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation. 454080, Chelyabinsk, st. Commune, d. 149. E-mail: nip@74.ru

Kukhtina Tatyana Vladimirovna, lecturer of criminal law, criminology and penal law, South Ural state University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation. 454080, Chelyabinsk, st. Commune, d. 149. E-mail: upiuip@mail.ru

Section

Criminal legal doctrine

Issue

6/2015

Page

201-206

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343.222

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Abstract

This article is devoted to the issues of insanity in some foreign countries. According to the criminal law of most countries, insanity is characterized by two criteria: medical (biological) and legal (psychological). These criteria are reflected in the insanity of the criminal code of the CIS countries and the Baltic, Austria, Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Spain, Italy, China, Colombia, Mongolia, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Turkey, France, Switzerland. The differences in the construction of the Institute of insanity in these countries are quite of a private nature and are confined mainly to the field of legal technology. The analysis of terms in the medical criterion of insanity. Also discusses the concept of diminished responsibility.

Keywords

sanity, insanity, medical (biological) criterion, legal (psychological) criteria, reduced sanity.

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