美国刑法中精神病鉴别规则的研究

刑事责任能力是指行为人构成犯罪和承担刑事责任所必须具备的刑法意义上辨认和控制自己行为能力，某些精神病人对白已行为的社会危害性没有认识或无法控制，这种精神障碍导致无法时自己的行为承担刑事责任，精神病也就成了刑事辩护的重要事由。文章对美国精神病辩护理由中的鉴别规则：即姆纳坦规则、不能控制规则、德赫姆规则及模范刑法典规则进行探讨；希冀我国刑法吸纳其合理的经验，完善和健全我国精神规则。

On Study of Identification of Insanity on American Criminal Law

Power of criminal responsibility means that the actor has the ability to recognize right or wrong about his behavior in criminal law and control his behavior. Some people with insanity, however have no this kind of capacity, so they can not take this responsibility, insanity is an important cause for defense in criminal litigation. The article discusses identification of insanity on American criminal law,which are MNaghten rule, irresistible impulse rule, Durham rule and MPC rule, so that Chinese criminal law adopts right elements of these rules to improve identification of insanity.