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Not Criminally Responsible and the Role of Schizophrenia
From: The Death of a Butterfly
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Chapter 3 explores the role of schizophrenia and the issue of criminal responsibility. For an accused to be deemed not criminally responsible, the court has to find, based upon psychiatric evidence, that while the accused committed the act or omission that gave rise to the offence they were, at the time, unable to appreciate the nature and quality of their actions or to know that they were wrong.
Contributors
Richard D. Schneider
Hon. Richard D. Schneider, PhD, LLM, CPsych, is a justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, a deputy judge of the Territorial Court of the Yukon, chair of the Ontario Review Board, and an alternate chair of the Nunavut Review Board. He is also an adjunct professor in the faculties of law and medicine at the University of Toronto. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Justice Schneider was a criminal defence lawyer, a clinical psychologist, and counsel to the Ontario Review Board. He has published extensively in the area of mental disorder and the law.
