insanity defense

Preferred Label : insanity defense;

MeSH definition : 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);

MeSH synonym : defense, insanity;

Related MeSH term : McNaughton rule; M'Naghten rule; criminal insanity; Rule, M'Naghten; Rule, McNaughton; Insanity, Criminal;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity defense;

Details

Origin ID

D007298;

UMLS CUI

C0021563;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Insanity Defense [DeCS]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- patient advocacy [Q-code]
Record concept(s)
- M'Naghten rule [MeSH concept]
- McNaughton rule [MeSH concept]
- criminal insanity [MeSH concept]
- insanity defense [MeSH concept]
See also
- Imputability [DeCS]
- mental competency [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Idea or Concept [UMLS semantic type]

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