Criminal legal significance of mental disorders
The paper carried an interdisciplinary scientific and practical analysis of Art. 21 and 22 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, discussed the concepts of insanity person, the combination of its medical and legal criteria. The authors identify the features and available, in their view, the shortcomings in the judicial practice of the solution of the question of sanity or insanity of the person who committed socially dangerous act, underlines the need for compulsory correlation the fact insanity person with their offense time. The article also raises issues and the problems of criminal responsibility of persons with mental disorder, not excluding sanity.
Keywords: insanity; the Criminal Code; scientific interpretation; mental disorder; compulsory measures of a medical nature.
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