The Limited Relevance of Neuroimaging in Insanity Evaluations
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DOI: 10.1007/s12152-019-09421-8
Abstract: Forensic evaluations of insanity have recently borne witness to an influx of neuroimaging methods, especially structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography, to assist in the development of explanations that help to… read more here.
Keywords: relevance neuroimaging; limited relevance; insanity; insanity evaluations ... See more keywords
Why we should universalize the insanity defense and replace punishment with therapy and education
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DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2019.05.001
Abstract: Abstract The insanity defense, which exempts those judged to be insane from being punished for whatever illegal acts they have committed, exists in order to be the exception that proves the rule: namely, that illegal… read more here.
Keywords: insanity defense; violence; universalize insanity; defense replace ... See more keywords
Mentally disordered offenders and the law: Research update on the insanity defense, 2004-2019.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.101507
Abstract: The insanity defense is among the most controversial legal constructs that has attracted the attention of scholars, practitioners and policy makers. Here, we conducted a systematic review of the literature spanning 2004 to 2019 that… read more here.
Keywords: 2004 2019; research; law; defense ... See more keywords
Remodelling criminal insanity: Exploring philosophical, legal, and medical premises of the medical model used in Norwegian law.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2022.101776
Abstract: This paper clarifies the conceptual space of discussion of legal insanity by considering the virtues of the 'medical model' model that has been used in Norway for almost a century. The medical model identifies insanity… read more here.
Keywords: law; model used; model; philosophical legal ... See more keywords
Translating clinical findings to the legal norm: the Defendant’s Insanity Assessment Support Scale (DIASS)
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DOI: 10.1038/s41398-019-0628-x
Abstract: Insanity definition and the threshold for satisfying its legal criteria tend to vary depending on the jurisdictions. Yet, in Western countries, the legal standards for insanity often rely on the presence of cognitive and/or volitional… read more here.
Keywords: assessment support; insanity; insanity assessment; defendant insanity ... See more keywords
Catch 22: the inflammatory nature of insight
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DOI: 10.1080/02668734.2018.1555771
Abstract: I will describe a man I saw in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with a history of serious drug abuse and violent psychotic episodes. At the start of therapy my patient had little capacity to tolerate the anxiety,… read more here.
Keywords: inflammatory nature; capacity; insanity; catch ... See more keywords
Letter to the Editor—Is Chronic Methamphetamine‐Induced Psychosis A Mental Disease for the Purposes of Insanity?
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DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.14448
Abstract: Editor, It is generally held that drug-induced psychoses do not qualify as mental diseases or defects for the purposes of the insanity defense; this tends to hold true even when a voluntarily consumed illicit drug… read more here.
Keywords: mental disease; drug; insanity; induced psychosis ... See more keywords
Mental Insanity Assessment of Pedophilia: The Importance of the Trans-Disciplinary Approach. Reflections on Two Cases
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DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00335
Abstract: A 60 plus-year-old male was charged with pedophilia for forcing a child to touch him inappropriately near a primary school fence. In another case, a 70 plus-year-old male was charged with pedophilia for intimately touching… read more here.
Keywords: mental insanity; insanity; insanity assessment; assessment pedophilia ... See more keywords
Plausible subjective experience versus fallible corroborative evidence: The formulation of insanity in Nigerian criminal courts
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1084773
Abstract: Insanity as a defence against criminal conduct has been known since antiquity. Going through significant reformulations across centuries, different jurisdictions across the globe, including Nigeria, have come to adopt various strains of the insanity defence,… read more here.
Keywords: formulation; plausible subjective; evidence; insanity ... See more keywords