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In a special issue of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, devoted to the intoxication excuse, Fingarette (1990a) declares that scientific research has established unequivocally that intoxication cannot excuse criminal behaviour. Fingarette regards continuing legal confusion, and defendants’ persistent invocation of the intoxication excuse, as a product of the time lag between the scientific establishment of the ‘facts’ and their absorption by the general public.
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Rumgay, J. (1998). Intoxication: Our Favourite Excuse. In: Crime, Punishment and the Drinking Offender. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26919-8_9
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