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dc.contributor.authorBeran, RG
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-02T01:45:19Z
dc.date.available2021-07-02T01:45:19Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn2666-3538
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.fsiml.2020.100019
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/405617
dc.description.abstractAutomatism represents automatic behaviour, thereby eliminating concepts of actus rea and mens rea, as the perpetrator is not in voluntary control of his/her actions nor intent. There are ‘sane’ automatisms (due to external factors) or ‘insane’ automatisms (due to internal factors). The present case represents a situation in which both ‘sane’ and ‘insane’ automatism could be evoked but neither were applicable when the facts were critically evaluated. Having pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter, the accused then tried to evoke automatism at the sentence hearing, which would, if proven, have resulted in an acquittal, thereby pleading both guilt and innocence in the same trial, something dismissed by the judge.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier BV
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom100019
dc.relation.ispartofjournalForensic Science International: Mind and Law
dc.relation.ispartofvolume1
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTesting, assessment and psychometrics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsycholinguistics (incl. speech production and comprehension)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode52
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode520108
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode520405
dc.titleAutomatism – A case of reality testing
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBeran, RG, Automatism – A case of reality testing, Forensic Science International: Mind and Law, 2020, 1, pp. 100019
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.date.updated2021-07-01T02:50:48Z
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gro.rights.copyright© 2020 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorBeran, Roy G.


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