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The impact of system design on the characteristics of Missouri's insanity acquittees.
This study describes the characteristics of Missouri insanity acquittees, which numbered 797 on July 1, 1992. Unlike reports of characterization data from other states, the study endeavors to link the characteristics to the design of Missouri's insanity acquittee system. This is accomplished by analyzing Missouri's insanity acquittee system and comparing it with the system designs and character...
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Subjectivism or Objectivism of insanity, as one of the eliminators of criminal responsibility, are challenges under attention regarding the psychotherapy findings about the criminal responsibility of the lunatics. The difference between the two is that if insanity has subjectivism to eliminate criminal responsibility, its authentication by judicial authority leads to eliminate the criminal resp...
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Research consistently indicates that jurors' intuitive prototypes of insanity and case-relevant attitudes shape their verdicts more strongly than legal definitions of insanity. Based on a sample of 113 prospective jurors, this study was designed to (a) assess the extent to which three prototypes of insanity held by jurors in a past study generalize to a sample of jurors in another state and (b)...
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The author assesses the accuracy of both the public's opinion and researchers' conclusions regarding the method of adjudication of insanity cases and investigates the impact of the various types of reforms enacted in the 1980s on the degree to which insanity cases are contested. Data from seven states are analyzed. The public's view that insanity cases are typically resolved by a jury trial is ...
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The frequency of use of the insanity plea, the probability of being acquitted by reason of insanity given the plea has been used, and the overall volume of insanity acquittees was determined for seven states. Across the seven states, there was an inverse relationship (r = -.67) between the frequency of use and the likelihood of success. As a result, the overall volume of insanity acquittees was...
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This article describes the military insanity defense. The success of the litigated insanity defense is explored through the number of insanity acquittals over a 28-month period. A questionnaire distributed to all United States Army psychiatrists provided information on the number of forensic evaluations performed, the number of not criminally responsible (NCR) opinions made, and the disposition...
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