Which of the following holds that a person may be deemed not guilty by reason of insanity, even if he or she knew that a criminal act was wrong, as long as the defendant was driven to commit the crime from some urge resulting from a mental deficiency the defendant could not resist?

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Milagros Rowland

12 April, 15:05

Which of the following holds that a person may be deemed not guilty by reason of insanity, even if he or she knew that a criminal act was wrong, as long as the defendant was driven to commit the crime from some urge resulting from a mental deficiency the defendant could not resist?

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Alessandra Cunningham · Answer 1

Answer: The irresistible impulse test

Explanation:

Based on the criminal law, irresistible impulse is what people use as their defence to say that they are not guilty for the crime that they are suspected to have commited because of insanity and their defence is to say that they can not be hold responsible for that crime because they committed it out of insanity they couldn't stop themselves even though the knew the action was wrong; it was beyond their mental capability to do so.