CCJS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Irresistible Impulse, Conclusive Presumption, Insanity Defense

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CCJS 230
• Professor: Russell Hamill

Document Summary

Irresistible impulse test- damaged willpower; due to a mental disease or defect they can"t control their actions, willpower. Product of mental illness test- if a criminal act is a product of a mental illness the defendant is not criminally responsible, Only in new hampshire, bar is so low. D. c. used to use this until a big case idk what. Infancy- irrebuttable presumption <6 cannot form criminal intent. Offense of duress elements: nature of the threat, some require death threats, some serious bodily injury, or , imminent harm, duress defense does not apply to murder, level of belief, reasonable belief the threat is real. Choice of evils defense- that all choixces were evil so you picked the lesser. Irresistible impulse- due to a mental disease or defect, they can"t control their actions, will power, impulses. Product of a mental illness- if a criminal act is the product of a mental illness, the defendant is not criminally responsible.