title: New perspectives in the legal psychiatry of cocaine-related crimes.
abstract: The legal criteria for the insanity defense as it applies to cocaine-related crimes remains elusive because of cocaine's unique spectrum of effects on human thought and action. This paper discusses the literature relevant to cocaine and forensic psychiatry/psychology, and summarizes the results of a survey of forensic psychiatrists on the topic of drug-induced psychosis. A conceptual framework is posited for the expert witness to distinguish the separable effects of cocaine on human behavior and to clarify their relationship to criminal responsibility.
authors.affiliation: Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Bunt
mesh_terms: D003042:Cocaine; D003415:Crime; D005104:Expert Testimony; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D007298:Insanity Defense; D007603:Jurisprudence; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D011605:Psychoses, Substance-Induced; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D003042:Cocaine