An Examination of PTSD and Criminal Responsibility among US Servicemembers.

CONCLUSIONS: PTSD is often considered a "severe mental disease or defect" during Sanity Board evaluations, which differs from the legal standard for "severe mental disease or defect" used by the military justice system. Forensic practitioners consulting with the military justice system acknowledge that PTSD is a "severe mental disease or defect" often, but they rarely opine that PTSD renders a servicemember NCR. In the rare instance where PTSD was opined to render a servicemember NCR, the symptom of dissociation caused an inability to appreciate the nature and quality or wrongfulness of the action. PMID: 31219167 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research