Citation

Knecht T. Arch. Kriminol. 2000; 206(3-4): 65-72.

Vernacular Title

Zur Neurobiologie des Notwehr-Exzesses. Fallbesprechung mit Zusammenfassung der

Affiliation

Psychiatrischen Klinik Münsterlingen/Schweiz.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11126586

Abstract

"Excess of self-defence", from the forensic-psychiatric point of view, is a hybrid between a crime of passion and a spontaneous retaliation. The Criminal Code puts under threat of penalty exceeding actions of self-defence, but it grants exemption from punishment to a person exceeding the limits in an excusable state of excitement. Going out from a case report, the author elucidates the problem of determining the degree of diminished responsibility. In order to do so, he points out the alternative pathways of affect-driven information-processing in the human central nervous system according to today's neuroscientific state of knowledge.

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