Female Diseases and Insanity

A comparison of female versus male insanity acquittees in Colorado.

This study was undertaken to investigate the authors' clinical impression that there are significant differences between the male and female insanity acquittees in Colorado, and that these differences result in significantly different treatment needs. The study sample included 149 patients: 112 men and 37 women committed to the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo as not guilty by reason ...

Insanity

Crime and Insanity

Insanity, Art and Culture

Insanity and Crime

irresponsible for his crime. Upon this the lawyers and the doctors have once more joined issue, though there appear to be signs that, with the exception of the rigid, high and dry variety, the lawyers are somewhat more disposed than formerly to recognise that psychology may, after all, be a real aid to the administration of justice. The fact that the MedicoLegal Society is steadily growing in n...