Armenia

Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia

General Part

Section 2.

Crime.

Chapter 4.

Persons subject to criminal liability.

Article 26. Limited sanity.

1. A sane person who, due to mental disorder, when committing the crime could not entirely understand the actual nature of one’s action (inaction) and its social danger, or control one’s actions, is subject to criminal liability.

2. Limited sanity is taken into account as a mitigating circumstance when imposing the punishment and can become the ground for the enforcement of medical measures, parallel to the punishment.

Keywords

Incapacity - national proceedings
Mental disease or defect - national proceedings
Sentencing - national proceedings
Determination of sentence - national proceedings
Mitigating factors - national proceedings



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