SCHOOL-MADE INSANITY.

Insanity

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

Images of Insanity

An examination of the way the cinema has dealt with mental illness and the introspective fascination with which it has mirrored the spirit of experimentation and fragmentation of the last decade.

Use of ready-made spectacles in school eye health programmes

The most common means of correcting refractive errors is with spectacles. Spectacles are prescribed and dispensed with corrective lenses that give the best visual acuity and are comfortable. Custom-made spectacles (i.e., made up for each individual) are more expensive, but they are essential in some cases, i.e., when a person requires astigmatic correction or needs diff erent power lenses in ea...