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Abolishing the Insanity Defense

suggest that its special nature puts it in a different class, so to speak, from other defenses that have to do with the causes of ...

MENTAL ILLNESS AND INSANITY - THE LEGAL ISSUE

held criminally responsible for his/her behavior (Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity, 2010). After this particular finding and after...

Seven Soliloquies of Hamlet: A Journey into Madness

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

Issues in Psychology

A positive life leads to health in all areas, physically, mentally and spiritually. The negative side is a general lack of consist...

Murder in "A Time to Kill"

Insanity, of course, is a slightly different issue than competency but never-the-less the two are related. The insanity defense i...

Insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

a dutiful wife, but there is clearly no connection between the two, and in this one can see one of the most powerful foundations f...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

Modification or Repeal of Criminal Law

can only survive as an emergency measure, inasmuch as the problem with prison overcrowding will soon reach epidemic proportions. ...

Psychological Views of the Insanity Legal Defense

In eight pages the legal system is discussed in an overview of how the insanity defense is used from a psychological point of view...

Aristotle and John Hinckley's Plea of Insanity

In five pages this paper examines Hinckley's assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan in a consideration of how Aristotle ...

Insanity Themes in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depress...

How the 21st Century Student Would Analyze Hamlet

answer might lie with the inner conflicts that were raging within Hamlet regarding his concept of honor and his desire to o the ri...

Plea of Insanity

laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, o...

Insanity Pleas

In eleven pages this paper examines how 'famous' people often use pleas of insanity as defenses. Fourteen sources are cited in th...

Sanity and insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

This paper looks at sanity and madness in Gilman's narrative The Yellow Wallpaper, and explores the concept that for the heroine, ...

4 Articles on Insanity Defense and Mental Disability

not prison. II. THEME OF THE FOUR ARTICLES The theme of these four articles -- Craziness and Criminal Responsibility, Introducti...

A Psychiatric Analysis of Madness and Selected Literary Works

This paper analyzes two psychiatric approaches to addressing madness and insanity. The author utilizes the works of R.D. Laing, D...

Insanity Plea Evolution

In five pages this paper considers how the insanity plea evolved in the cirminal justice system. Five sources are cited in the bi...

Evaluation of How the Insanity Defense is Used

In six pages this paper examines various cases in an historical overview of the insanity legal defense. Ten sources are cited in ...

Culpability in Criminal Justice

For an act to be punished as a criminal offense it has to not only be against a specified law...

Hamlet/The Ruse of Insanity

ghost is the specter of his father, condemned to suffer "sulphurous and tormenting flames" (I.v.7) because he died without having ...

Making a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: The Legal Implications

have also engaged in outpatient mental health care services. Ms. Tyler held a job on an assembly line for a short period of time...

Double Characterization in Mrs. Dalloway

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway". The bond of "insanity" between Clarissa and Septimus is ex...

Mrs. Dalloway and the Meaning of Insanity

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Mrs. Dalloway. The relationship between Septimus and Clarissa is examined at the them...

"Craziness and Criminal Responsibility" by Stephen Morse

This essay reviews and critiques "Craziness and Criminal Responsibility" by Stephen Morse, which pertains to the legal principle ...

Mental Illness and the Law

In two pages insanity is defined and the ways in which the law dictates mentally ill individuals are to be treated by society are ...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Mental Illness

In twelve pages mental illness is examined from the perspectives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in terms of labels suc...

Insanity and Sexual Hysteria in Turn of the Screw by Henry James

trouble him--but never, never; neither appeal nor complain nor write about anything; only meet all questions herself, receive all ...

Analysis of 'Why I Live at the P.O.' by Eudora Welty

In five pages this research paper analyzes Welty's popular short story with the emphasis upon family eccentricities and the post m...