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Criminal responsibility: an action language approach.

G H Miller

    Psychiatry
    |May 1, 1979
    PubMed
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    Psychiatry and law can align on criminal responsibility. By reframing psychiatric statements using action language, the conflict between psychic determinism and free will disappears, reconciling these fields.

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    Area of Science:

    • Forensic Psychiatry
    • Legal Psychology
    • Philosophy of Law

    Background:

    • A traditional conflict exists between psychiatry's psychic determinism and law's assumption of free will.
    • The insanity defense highlights the intersection and tension between psychiatric and legal concepts of responsibility.
    • Previous frameworks suggested inherent incompatibility between psychiatric and legal discourse on culpability.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore the potential for reconciliation between psychiatric propositions and legal principles of criminal responsibility.
    • To investigate whether psychiatric statements necessitate a deterministic causal framework.
    • To propose an alternative formulation for psychiatric propositions to resolve inherent conflicts with legal doctrines.

    Main Methods:

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  • Critically examined the assumption of psychic determinism in psychiatric discourse.
  • Adopted Roy Schafer's action language framework for reformulating psychiatric propositions.
  • Analyzed the implications of this reformulation for statements on criminal responsibility.

    • Main Results:

    • Demonstrated that psychiatric propositions need not be exclusively causally deterministic.
    • Showed that adopting action language can eliminate the perceived incompatibility between psychiatry and law.
    • Established a potential for coherent integration of psychiatric insights into legal assessments of responsibility.

    Conclusions:

    • The perceived conflict between psychiatry and law regarding free will and determinism is not intrinsic.
    • Reformulating psychiatric propositions using action language resolves the incompatibility issue.
    • This approach facilitates a more unified understanding of criminal responsibility across both disciplines.