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===Courtroom=== In court, the social contract is used to diagnose mental health, with the ultimate aim of delivering a fair sentence.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7152852/ | pmid=7152852 | year=1982 | last1=Colett | first1=I. V. | title=The case of Lisa H. The role of mental health professionals where the social contract is violated | journal=The International Journal of Social Psychiatry | volume=28 | issue=4 | pages=283β285 | doi=10.1177/002076408202800407 | s2cid=36088670 }}</ref> Judge [[John Geoffrey Jones]] called it "an aspect of the instinct for self-preservation." He saw the committer of bad deeds as the impervious person: that "rare person whose intuition is stunted and who misses out on instruction grows up uninhibited, so continues bad deeds." Jones argued that the legitimancy of the judiciary is not absolute. Rather than the court, it is the psychiatrist's job to diagnose mental health.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jones |first=Geoffrey |author-link=John Geoffrey Jones |date=September 1994 |title=Comment on "Psychiatry and the Concept of Evil" |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/eb7ad94196e338e969f8452e5e1aa85f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=40635 |url-status=live |journal=[[The British Journal of Psychiatry]] |volume=165 |issue=3 |page=301 |doi=10.1017/S0007125000072597 |s2cid=148644906 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209153504/https://www.proquest.com/openview/eb7ad94196e338e969f8452e5e1aa85f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=40635 |archive-date=2022-12-09 |access-date=2023-01-06 |via=[[ProQuest]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{blockquote|My own present, unresolved thoughts are that 'evil' is within the realm of theologians and moral philosophers. Doctors, judges and lawyers would do well to concern themselves with bad deeds and bad health, that is deeds, which society has determined as criminal. If the perpetrators of bad deeds are not sick, they should be punished according to law. If they are sick, they should be treated. |[[John Geoffrey Jones]], ''Psychopaths: An Introduction''<ref>{{cite book |last=Prins |first=Herschel |author-link=Herschel Prins |date=2013 |title=Psychopaths: An Introduction |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJEU3d8VL1IC |location=Google Books |publisher=Waterside Press |page=126 |isbn=9781904380924 |access-date=2023-03-21 |archive-date=2023-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407015839/https://books.google.com/books?id=hJEU3d8VL1IC |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
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