Citation

Meynen G. Int. J. Law Psychiatry 2012; 35(4): 298-304.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ijlp.2012.04.011

PMID

22627087

Abstract

Within the context of an ethical theory of responsibility, Susan Wolf has argued that people can only be considered fully responsible for their actions when they are sane. In this paper I explore the possibility of applying her ethical account of sanity and responsibility to forensic assessments of criminal responsibility. I argue that after some substantial revisions her account can be helpful in order to arrive at an ethics-based conceptual framework for forensic psychiatric assessments within the context of an insanity defense.

Language: en