Criminal Insanity – Medical, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives
This session explores interdisciplinary perspectives on criminal insanity. The focus is on the significance of delusions for the law's understanding of who should be found insane and who should not.
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While psychotic delusions are commonly related to insanity it is sometimes difficult to demarcate between delusions and ideological beliefs - seen for instance in the 22 July case. The presenters will examine the meaning of delusion from a legal, philosophical and medical perspective, and the possibility of a joint approach will be discussed. The audience will be invited to contribute.
This event presents the RCN funded project DIMENSIONS, based at UiB - Faculty of Law. Joint Keynote lecture by Linda Gröning (Professor of Law, UiB), Unn K. Haukvik (Associate Professor, Institute of Clinical Medicine, UiO) and Susanna Radovic (Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Gothenburg).
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This event is part of the Bergen Exchanges on Law and Social Transformation. It is free and open to all. The audience can follow all seminars both physically and digitally on Zoom.
Please note that according to the COVID-19 regulations, all attendees must keep a distance of at least one metre from each other and maintain good hand hygiene. Your name and phone number will be registered and kept for 14 days. If you have any respiratory tract symptoms, you should stay at home.
According to the infection control measures, we need to have an overview of who is present at all times and thus kindly ask all who plans to participate to sign up beforehand via the sign-up link: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=8879487.
Seating is limited, so first come, first served.