An Analysis of a Recent Criminal Trial Involving Sexual Misconduct with a Child, Alcohol Abuse and a Successful Sleepwalking Defence: Arguments supporting two proposed new forensic categories

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-152

  Schenck, Carlos H ^a   Mahowald, Mark W ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; CANADA; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SLEEP WALKING;

ADULT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; AUTOMATISM; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; SOMNAMBULISM;

EID: 0032040806     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580249803800211     Document Type: Article

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