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Psychopathy in South African criminal case law between 1947 and 1999: an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law
Includes bibliographical references.
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| author | Silkstone, Christine |
| author2 | Louw, Johann |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12009 Psychopathy in South African criminal case law between 1947 and 1999: an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law Silkstone, Christine Louw, Johann Tredoux, Colin Research Psychology Includes bibliographical references. This study drew on South African criminal case reports containing judicial pronouncements on psychopathy between 1947 and 1999 to explore the historical relationship between psychology and the law. In criminal law, where mental illness is alleged, the issue of responsibility arises. During the period of the study, there were important legal developments in the criminal law relating to criminal responsibility, including the formulation of a statutory test for capacity in 1977 that did away with the M’Naghten Rules and irresistible impulse principle, ... Diminished responsibility was also entrenched in the criminal law in the same Act. Psychopathy provided an interesting case study as, in terms of legal thinking, a diagnosis may indicate pathology but is not of a degree that it necessarily follows that it would be unreasonable to assign blame in law. 2015-01-10T13:40:14Z 2015-01-10T13:40:14Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12009 eng application/pdf Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Research Psychology Silkstone, Christine Psychopathy in South African criminal case law between 1947 and 1999: an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Psychopathy in South African criminal case law between 1947 and 1999: an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law |
| title_full | Psychopathy in South African criminal case law between 1947 and 1999: an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law |
| title_fullStr | Psychopathy in South African criminal case law between 1947 and 1999: an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychopathy in South African criminal case law between 1947 and 1999: an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law |
| title_short | Psychopathy in South African criminal case law between 1947 and 1999: an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law |
| title_sort | psychopathy in south african criminal case law between 1947 and 1999 an exploration of the relationship between psychology and law |
| topic | Research Psychology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12009 |
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