Abstract
Because of the disagreement among legal and medical authori ties about the "tests" currently being used to determine a defend ant's criminal responsibility, the author suggests two courses of action. The first would continue the use of the M'Naghten rule, supplemented by improved and diversified institutional treatment programs for the offender. The second would separate the question of the defendant's complicity in the crime from his mental capacity to commit it.
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