The Analysis Of The Application Of Diminished Responsibility Criteria For Persons With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Konstantinas Daškevičius, Jelena Daškevičienė Abstract In improving the modern law, increasing its humanistic potential, overcoming the traditional formalistic-bureaucratic nature of law, its apathy, reducing the psychologically traumatising effect for persons with psychological disorders, the diminished responsibility norm was put into force in 2000. However, it is seldom realised in the Lithuanian forensic psychiatry evaluation practice,…