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irresistible impulse test
A standard for judging legal insanity which holds that a defendant is not guilty of a criminal offense if the person, by virtue of their mental state or psychological condition, was not able to resist committing the action in question.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Sociology
- Category: Criminology
- Company: Pearson Prentice Hall
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- M.Holmes
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