Little research has examined agreements and disagreements between clinical evaluations of sanity and the subsequent legal dispositions. Few studies have examined the level of agreement between clinical evaluation of sanity and subsequent legal disposition. For example, Fukunaga and his associates I found an exceptionally high concordance rate of93 percent, which may be partially explained by Ha...

The authors compared 127 insanity acquittees in the state of Maryland with a matched prisoner control group of 127 convicted felons and a comparison group of 135 mentally disordered prisoners transferred for hospital treatment. Subjects were followed from five to 17 years after discharge from hospital or release from prison. Subsequent arrests, hospitalizations, employment, and functioning of t...

Cases of “adolescent insanity” were known to Kraepelin’s forerunners and lay at the core of his concept of dementia præcox. In the post-neuroleptic era it became clear that dementia may also occur in schizophrenia as a fully reversible state depending on psychopathological status. In the present review we discuss the validity of applying the concept of dementia to schizophrenia. We concur with ...

if someone committed a crime while insane, in different legal systems, it is accepted that deal with him should be different from people with mental health and in the case of the existence of other circumstances, he is recognized without criminal responsibility. this is commonly where the wrongdoer suffers from complete mental disorder, not partial mental disorder. the islamic punishment code 1...

This research compared the outcomes of two cohorts of insanity acquittees: one group was treated solely in the maximum security state forensic hospital before their release to the community (nonregionalized) and the other group was treated at the state forensic hospital and transferred for further treatment at less secure state regional hospitals (regionalized). This research describes the outc...

The geographic distribution of insanity and schizophrenia in the United States is examined for 9 separate years between 1880 and 1963. A concentration of these conditions in Northeastern and Pacific Coast States was remarkably consistent over the 83 years. States with a high prevalence rate had approximately three times more insanity and schizophrenia than those with a low prevalence rate. Ther...

A preliminary investigation of the impact of pretrial evaluations of trial competence and legal insanity, and the variables that mediate case outcomes is reported. Twenty-four percent of defendants evaluated as incompetent to stand trial were found competent by the court or were tried without the question of competence being adjudicated. Charges were dropped in more than half of the cases in wh...

Introduction The defense of insanity has been a source of debate since its inception. In theory, this defense is a natural result of the requirement basic to the criminal law that, to find guilt, there must be a guilty mind. 1 In practice, implementation of this concept through the insanity defense has led to many complex problems. The result is a continuing controversy within and between the l...

The social history of insanity has proved a seductive paradigm for students of the management of the dependent poor in nineteenth-century England. Largely through Andrew Scull's work, the insane have been perceived as "casualties" of class and gender power relations during the transformation from paternalistic laissez-faire rural economy into an industrialized capitalist state.' While the Eliza...