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1.
The Insanity Defense: A Critical Assessment of Law and Policy in the Post-Hinckley Era
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Publisher:
Praeger 1988
Subjects:
Insanity--Jurisprudence--United States
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...historical development ofthe insanity defense is traced, and social science...frequen­cy of use of the insanity defense are presented.Briefly, the...to raise the issue. In the Insanity Defense Reform Actof 1984, Congress...
2.
Evil or Ill? Justifying the Insanity Defence
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Publisher:
Routledge 1997
Subjects:
Criminal Liability
Insanity--Jurisprudence
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...5. --(1989) 'Maintenance of an insanity defence under Montana's "abolition" of the insanity defence', American Journal of Psychiatry...Blackwell. Stone, A. (1982) 'The insanity defense on trial', Hospital and Community Psychiatry...
3.
Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985
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Publisher:
University of Alabama Press 1989
Subjects:
Forensic Psychiatry--History
Homicide--Psychological Aspects
Mentally Ill Offenders
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...altogether, though some sawmoral insanity as a condition in which the derangement...was the firstsign of a form of insanity that would progress to frank involveU...intact. Lawyers raised the moral insanity defense in awide variety of medico-legal...
4.
The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln
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Publisher:
Southern Illinois University Press 1993
Subjects:
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882--Mental Health
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Family
Presidents' Spouses--United States--Biography
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...advanced maxims of law" on the insanity defense "born in hercourts." And he...brought Swett's attention to the insanity defensein a case which also involved...00ADing such folksy attacks on the insanity defense. By way of prepara­tion...
5.
Insanity as Redemption in Contemporary American Fiction: Inmates Running the Asylum
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Publisher:
University Press of Florida 1995
Subjects:
American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
Literature And Mental Illness--United States--History--20th Century
Psychiatric Hospital Patients In Literature
Redemption In Literature
Mentally Ill In Literature
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...is good for thecountry, a message that recalls Secretary of Defense Charles E.("Engine Charlie") Wilson's...groups anddemand revenge. "Not one voice was raised in his defense" -- untilMilo opens his books to the public and discloses...
6.
Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction, and Belonging in America
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Publisher:
Temple University Press 2005
Subjects:
Mentally Ill--United States--Social Conditions
Addicts--United States--Social Conditions
Homeless Persons--Mental Health--United States
Homeless Persons--Mental Health Services--United States
Homelessness--United States
Marginality, Social--United States
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...concept of alcoholism as the pre­ferred strategy of defense was not an inevitable choice, and reflected thealliance of...successfully argued that the disease of alco­holism was a valid defense to the criminal charge of public intoxication.However, two...
7.
Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations
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Publisher:
Routledge 2000
Subjects:
Auditory Hallucinations
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...Socrates. In R. Waterfield (ed.), Conversations of Socrates. London: Penguin Books.Xenophon (1990b). Socrates' defense. In R. Waterfield (ed.), Conversations of Socrates. London: Penguin Books.Xenophon (1990c). Dinner party. In...
8.
The Cultural Defense
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2004
Subjects:
Defense (Criminal Procedure)--Sociological Aspects
Actions and Defenses--Sociological Aspects
Culture And Law
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...Another reason for adopting a cultural defense is to achieve a greater degree of uniU...of such cases.AutomatismThe automatism defense is sometimes regarded as a type of insanity defense, but itis different in character. Automatism...
9.
Self-Defense and Battered Women Who Kill: A New Framework
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Publisher:
Praeger 2002
Subjects:
Justifiable Homicide--United States
Self-Defense (Law)--United States
Abused Women--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--United States
Abused Women--United States
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...United States, and throughout Europe to supplement an insanity defense for such women. Ogle et al. (1995)...why battered women kill as a supplement to a self-defense defense, is Battered Woman Syndrome. This theory, developed...
10.
War and Self-Defense
Contributors:
Publisher:
Clarendon Press 2002
Subjects:
Self-Defense (International Law)
War (International Law)
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...the famous McNaughton rules the cause of the mental disturbance was deemed 'internal' and therefore generated a defense of insanity rather than non-insane automatism.52 Yet for our purposes there is an important sense in which the cause of...
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