Feigned insanity

Notes on Feigned Insanity

" Edgar. While I may scape, I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape, That ever penury, in contempt of man, Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth; Blanket my loins ; elf all my hair in knots ; And with presented nakedness out-face The winds and persecutions of the sky. The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars, who, with ...

Insanity

Feigned Tumor of the Jaw

Emamun, a Mussalmani, aged 15, was brought to me on November 20th by her parents. They stated that upwards of a year before they had observed a small tumor near the angle of the lower jaw on the left side. It continued to increase slowly; native practitioners failed to give relief; and at last, despairing of a cure, they had brought her to me to have it removed by operation. There was a tumor o...

Insanity plea: predicting not guilty by reason of insanity adjudications.

Using 35 variables and discriminant analysis procedures, it was found that, of 133 male defendants entering the insanity plea in Colorado, 87 percent were classified correctly into the disposition groups "adjudicated insane" and "convicted." Most positively related to an insanity adjudication were a psychiatric evaluation of insanity and a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Negatively related to the i...

Crime and Insanity