Law of Evidence and its Production:: Analysis of Psychiatric Expert Evidence before Rwandan Criminal Courts - Couverture souple

Maniragaba, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 6205508141 ISBN 13 : 9786205508145

Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

This book explores and analyzes the ways in which the role of psychiatric experts do assist criminal court judges, in investigation or in criminal justice as whole for the smooth running of criminal justice. It scrutinizes insanity defense and its conception in international criminal law with a view on its applicability in different International Criminal Tribunals and International Criminal Court.It concerns as well the same theme said above in particular with regard to Rwandan criminal law system centering on mechanisms used for psychiatric expert witnesses to assure their objectivity in making expert report; credibility of the information they give to the trial court; risk of misleading the expert witness by criminal suspects and critically analyzes the issue of period of assessment by psychiatrists besides to conditions of the psychiatric expert report.It also explores criterion of selection of a psychiatric expert witness and the way psychiatrists understand the concept of mental illness as well as how criminal law judges do understand the concept of insanity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 6205508141
• ISBN 13: 9786205508145
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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