A legal defense where a mental abnormality is used to reduce accountability for an act. Also called limited responsibility. See partial insanity.
DIMINISHED RESPONSIBILITY: “Joe used dimished responsibility to have his sentence reduced.”
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Mohammed Looti, PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES (2023) DIMINISHED RESPONSIBILITY. Retrieved from https://scales.arabpsychology.com/terms/diminished-responsibility/. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31575.96163
