The Concept That Individuals with Impaired Cognitive Understanding Should Not

question 44

Multiple Choice

The concept that individuals with impaired cognitive understanding should not be held culpable, was used as early as the Roman Empire. Roman law classified those individuals to be non compos mentis, or:

• A) not quite all there.
• B) mentally competent.
• C) without mastery of mind.
• D) mens rea.

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