This landmark publication offers a unique comparative and interdisciplinary study of criminal insanity and neuroscience‎.‎ Criminal law theories and ideologies which underpin the regulation of criminal insanity have always been the subject of controversy‎.‎ The history of criminal insanity is characterised by conceptual and empirical tension between two disciplinary realms‎:‎ the law and the mind sciences‎.‎ The authors in this anthology explore in depth the state of the art of legal insanity and the numerous intricate‎,‎ fascinating‎,‎ pioneering and sophisticated questions raised by the integration of different criminal law and behaviour theories‎,‎ diverse disciplines and methodologies‎,‎ in a genuinely interdisciplinary perspective‎.‎ This volume will serve as a practical guide for the comparative legal scholar and the judge‎,‎ as well as stimulating scholarly reading for the neuroscientist‎,‎ the social scientist and the philosopher with interdisciplinary scientific interests‎.‎