title: What! Criteria for criminal responsibility?
abstract: Criminal responsibility is established on the basis of intent and the usual absence of psychiatric symptomatology. Crime constitutes a choice of actions in response to stress and may be directed by clear-cut motives. For the empirical assessment of criminal responsibility the offender should initially be considered responsible for his or her criminal deeds until all relevant psychiatric facts prove otherwise. A clinical instrument that has been used by the author for this purpose is described in this paper.
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Ovuga
mesh_terms: D003416:Criminal Law; D003417:Criminal Psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011599:Psychopathology; D012941:Social Responsibility