Diagnosing evil in Australian courts: psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder as legal synonyms of evil. From: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Ruffles, Janet | COPYRIGHT 2004 Australian Academic Press Pty. Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Australian courts have tended to avoid invoking the concept of evil on the basis that it risks adding a moral and religious dimension to the judicial task of attributing blame. How, then, do Australian courts characterise crimes that sit at the extreme end of the spectrum of "bad deeds" if the concept of evil is anathema to the legal discourse? This article argues that the law's avoidance of the concept of evil has caused it to call upon the mental health professions to provide the...

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