General Defences to Crime (VCE SSCE Legal Studies): Flashcards

General: various crimes; Specific: particular offences only

Self-def, mental impair, duress, emerg, automatism, intox, accident

Believed necessary & perceived as reasonable response

Condition affecting ability to know conduct nature/wrongness

Not guilty by reason of mental impairment

Mental pressure overcoming will, forcing someone to act

Total loss of control over bodily movements; not conscious

Must be NOT self-induced

Involuntary, unintentional, reasonably unforeseeable

Unfit: at trial; Mental impairment: at offence