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Delusions and Responsibility for Action: Insights from the Breivik Case
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What factors should be taken into account when attributing criminal responsibility to perpetrators of severe crimes? We discuss the Breivik case, and the considerations which led to holding Breivik accountable for his criminal acts. We put some pressure on the view that experiencing certain psychiatric symptoms or receiving a certain psychiatric diagnosis is sufficient to establish criminal insanity. We also argue that the presence of delusional beliefs, often regarded as a key factor in dete...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/s12152-013-9198-4
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- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands
- Journal:
- Neuroethics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 377-382
- Publication date:
- 2014-12-01
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1874-5504
- ISSN:
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1874-5490
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English
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447365
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- Bortoletti et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. This article is distributed under the terms of the
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distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original
author(s) and the source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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