irresistible impulse test

Criminal law. A test for insanity, holding that a person is not criminally responsible for an act if mental disease prevented that person from controlling potentially criminal conduct.

• The few jurisdictions that have adopted this test have combined it with the McNaghten rules.

— Also termed control test; volitional test. See INSANITY DEFENSE; MCNAGHTEN RULES. [Cases: Criminal Law 50.]

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