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Psychiatric Aspects of Justification, Excuse and Mitigation in Anglo-American Criminal Law Schools And Viewpoints and how you can doViolent crimes committed by the mentally disordered attract academic and public attention. They raise issues of moral responsibility and public protection. This study systematically analyses the principles underlying those legal and medical devices which enable the courts to make special arrangements for the mentally disordered. Buchanan examines three fundamental precepts in criminal law: justification, excuse and mitigation. A defendant who has been