Commentary: Alcoholic blackout - Does it remove mens rea?

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 375-377

  Merikangas, James ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMNESIA; CONFABULATION; COURT; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FIGHTING; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NOTE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ALCOHOLISM; AMNESIA; CRIME; GUILT; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 11144326883     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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