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Are symptoms assessed differently for schizophrenia and other psychoses in legal insanity evaluations of violent crimes? [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Background Forensic evaluations of legal insanity include the experts’ assessment of symptoms present at the mental state examination (MSE) and the mental state at the time of offense (MSO). Delusions and hallucinations are most important.
Pia Jorde Løvgren +4 more
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The American Journal of Psychology, 1924 This book is widely known for its lucid account of the modern theory that sanity and insanity are not to be divided in a clear-cut way, but rather shade gradually into one another. Since this book deals mainly with the fundamental general principles of abnormal psychology, and these were already clearly formulated at the time it was first written in ...
Bernard Hart
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Guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity? a comparative study of murderers referred for psychiatric examination by court order [PDF]
Health & Justice, 2023 Background Some murders are committed under the influence of a psychotic state resulting from a mental disorder, mainly schizophrenia. According to the law in many countries, people with mental disorders do not have criminal responsibility.
Anat Yaron Antar
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“Insanity Is the Price of Modern Civilization”: The Discourse of Civilization and the Asian Insane in Modern America [PDF]
Uisahak, 2021 Examining debates on the link between civilization and insanity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States, this essay engages the discourse of civilization to discuss the ways in which insanity among Asian immigrants, in particular
Ji-Hye SHIN
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 A prominent body of literature indicates that insanity evaluations, which are intended to provide influential expert reports for judges to reach a decision “beyond any reasonable doubt,” suffer from a low inter-rater reliability.
Cristina Scarpazza +7 more
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Evolution of the Institution of Insanity in English Law
Психология и право, 2021 The article studies the genesis and evolution of the insanity institute in the English law using historical and legal as well as comparative and legal methodologies. Special focus is given to the psychological and legal aspects of insanity.
Malinovskiy A.A.
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Legal Insanity: Towards an Understanding of Free Will Through Feeling in Modern Europe [PDF]
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2017 The degree to which insanity or mental infirmity can be instrumentalized in legal debate is shaped by understandings of what insanity is, the currency of a specific diagnosis, as well as official and unofficial symptomatologies, all of which render the ...
Daphne Rozenblatt
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The Haunting of Jesus: Reading Mark through the Gothic Mode [PDF]
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2021 Spirits and the associated messianic secret play a central role in the Gospel of Mark. In this article I present a Gothic reading of the gospel. In the beginning of Mark, Jesus is driven by a spirit into the wilderness.
Tom de Bruin
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Translational Psychiatry, 2022 The insanity defense represents one of the most controversial and debated evaluations performed by forensic psychiatrists and psychologists. Despite the variation among different jurisdictions, in Western countries, the legal standards for insanity often
Giovanna Parmigiani +3 more
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