Abstract Criminal responsibility refers to a person’s ability understand his action, behavior at the time crime is committed, what person thinking when he commits or expected result committed. Crime defined in terms of an act omission (actus reus) and mental state (mens rea). In this paper, presented general concept irresponsibility essentially reduced as reason be exempted from punishment prov...

A variety of psychiatric disorders but dementia are among the issues discussed in criminology and can have a significant influence on the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators and the patients with such disorders and consequently on their criminal law. Mental disorders which encompass a wide range of mild, moderate, and severe neuropsychiatric illnesses are usually resulting from biologic...