Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

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CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY AND MENTAL DISORDER: WHY DO HETEROGENEOUS CONSTRUCTS NOT OVERLAP?

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It is a well-framed restatement of a familiar problem — that a diagnosis does not translate into a responsibility judgment — and may sharpen how an evaluator articulates the limits of a diagnostic conclusion in an insanity report. It changes no rule, reports no finding, and does not make any assertion currently made in reports harder to defend.

Int J Law Psychiatry. 2026;108:102236.