Insanity Defense
"Insanity Defense" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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)
| Descriptor ID |
D007298
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F04.096.544.335.528 I01.198.780.937.469.528 I01.880.604.583.310.528 N03.706.535.351.528
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