Interdisciplinary studies on the framework of the judicial judgement of doli capax and the content of the psyciatric exminations

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330020
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Criminal law
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: YASUDA Takuto 京都大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 教授 (10293333)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OKADA Takayuki 東京医科歯科大学, 大学院医歯学総合研究科, 教授 (40282769) ; ANDO Kumiko 国立研究開発法人国立精神, 神経医療研究センター・センター病院 司法精神医療研究センター 医療研究開発室, 室長 (40510384) ; SAKAMAKI Tadashi 京都大学, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (50143350)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 責任能力 / 心神喪失 / 心神耗弱 / 精神の障害 / 精神鑑定 / 司法精神医学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We demonstrated that the content of the psyciatiric examinations schold be restricted to the field of psychiatry by reassessing the position of the examinations in the judicial forensic code of legal procedure.The content of it include analysis on the mechanism of the corresponding psychiatric symptoms which induced the corresponding crimes.
Forensic, normative judgement of doli capax will be made on this analisis whether or not the person could have suppressed implus to commit corresponding crime with normal mental functions.

Free Research Field

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