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ПСИХИЧНИТЕ ЗАБОЛЯВАНИЯ И НЕВМЕНЯЕМОСТТА В КОНТЕКСТА НА ТЕРОРИЗМА
PSYCHOSIS AND INSANITY IN THE CONTEXT OF TERRORISM

Author(s): Linda Gröning, Slavka Dimitrova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Psychology, Criminal Law, Psychoanalysis
Published by: Бургаски свободен университет
Keywords: Terrorism; insanity; psychiatric disorder; mental illness; psychiatric evaluation

Summary/Abstract: Terrorism is a significant threat to security, to the values of democratic societies and to the rights and freedoms of citizens. A specific challenge in this context is when terrorist acts are committed by mentally ill offenders. Such cases raise an urgent challenge for legal research: How is mental illness relevant in the intersection between criminal insanity and terrorism as one of the most serious types of the criminality of our time?

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 71-77
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian
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