TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1992//
TI  - Epilepsy and criminal law
JO  - Medicine, science, and the law
A1  - Paul, G. M.
A1  - Lange, Klaus W.
SP  - 160
EP  - 166
VL  - 32
IS  - 2
N2  - Automatic episodes of aggressive or violent behaviour may occur during or after an epileptic fit. Epileptic automatisms are regarded by the law as 'insane automatisms'. A person who commits a crime during the course of a seizure is therefore legally insane and must be committed to a psychiatric hospital. The law of insanity is inappropriate when applied to epileptic automatisms. A change in the law is therefore necessary to remove epileptic offenders from the legal ambit of insanity, and to save them the threat of detention in a mental hospital as a consequence of their crime.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0025-8024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -