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Closing Italian Forensic Psychiatry Hospitals in Favor of Treating Insanity Acquittees in the Community.

Behavioral sciences & the law, 2016
Originally a hedge against the death penalty, the insanity defense came to offer hospitalization as an alternative to imprisonment. In the late 19th century Italy opened inpatient services first for mentally ill prisoners and then for offenders found not
F. Carabellese, A. Felthous
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Cognitive rigidity explains the relationship between religious fundamentalism and insanity defence attitudes

Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 2018
Religious fundamentalism is related to both prejudice and punitiveness. Wulff's theory of religion suggests that fundamentalism is associated with beliefs in the inclusion of transcendence and literal interpretation of religious beliefs and experiences ...
Logan A. Yelderman
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Reconsidering Risk Assessment With Insanity Acquittees

Law and Human Behavior, 2018
States continue to rely on conditional release (CR) as an effective and cost-effective way to manage individuals found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI).
M. Vitacco   +4 more
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This Is Insane!

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 2009
The case of Andrea Yates, the Houston mother who drowned her five children in the family bathtub, has spurred public debate about methods of prosecuting the mentally ill, the dangers of postpartum depression, sanity, and the appropriate use of the death penalty. The Yates case was chronicled in more than 1,150 published articles nationally in the first
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Assessing Insanity Acquittee Recidivism in Connecticut.

Behavioral sciences & the law, 2016
For over 30 years now the movement and status of insanity acquittees in Connecticut has been supervised by the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB). During this time, 365 acquittees have been committed to the jurisdiction of the PSRB, 177 individuals
M. Norko   +5 more
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'God Said to Abraham/Kill Me a Son': Why the Insanity Defense and the Incompetency Status are Compatible with and Required by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Basic Principles of Therapeutic Jurisprudence

, 2015
Interpretations of the General Comments to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) — that command the abolition of the insanity defense and the incompetency status — make no theoretical or conceptual sense, disregard the history ...
M. Perlin
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Madness in civilization : the cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine

, 2015
This hugely ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it.
A. Scull
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The insanity defense.

, 2016
Writing about the insanity defense over a quarter of a century ago, the author of this chapter stated: "Until we 'unpack' the empirical and social myths that underlie our misconceptions about the insane and the insanity defense and hold us in a paralytic
M. Perlin
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Disordered Personalities and Crime: An analysis of the history of moral insanity

, 2015
This book takes a broadly historical and transdisciplinary approach to understanding the problem of what has been known at various times as ‘moral insanity’, ‘psychopathy’ or ‘antisocial personality disorder’.
D. Jones
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Allergy In The Insane

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1943
Abstract 1.1. The incidence of hay fever and asthma in the insane, whether organic or inorganic, is the same as that in the sane. 2.2. The mental imbalance in the insane does not influence the degree of hay fever. 3.3. The low incidence of hay fever and asthma in the psychotic, quoted heretofore, is due probably to the failure of the insane to ...
J. V. Edlin, Michael Zeller
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