Insanity Defense - History
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Gags, funnels and tubes: forced feeding of the insane and of suffragettes.

16 Nov 2008 Just before the outbreak of World War I, British suffragettes were imprisoned in large numbers. Many engaged in hunger strikes and suffered brutal treatment, most notoriously forced feeding. Government authorities, backed by prominent physicians, ... Read more...

The ethics of forensic practice: reclaiming the wasteland.

30 Dec 2007 After beginning with a warm appreciation of Alan Stone's scholarship and character, this article argues that Stone's woeful characterization of forensic practice as a wasteland that has no genuine ethical guide to practice and little to contribute ... Read more...

Stone's views of 25 years ago have now shifted incrementally.

30 Dec 2007 Twenty-five years ago, a major article by Professor Alan Stone on ethics in forensic psychiatry was published. It caused reverberations on a national scale. After the seismic shocks that he had provoked settled down, several thoughtful forensic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Insanity Defense - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Criminal madness: cultural iconography and insanity. 30 Mar 2009
• Insanity in Babylonian sources. 30 Dec 2008
• Gags, funnels and tubes: forced feeding of the insane and of suffragettes. 16 Nov 2008
• The ethics of forensic practice: reclaiming the wasteland. 30 Dec 2007
• Stone's views of 25 years ago have now shifted incrementally. 30 Dec 2007
• Ethics and forensic psychiatry: translating principles into practice. 30 Dec 2007
• Alan Stone and the ethics of forensic psychiatry: an overview. 30 Dec 2007
• Commentary: Mapping a changing landscape in the ethics of forensic psychiatry. 30 Dec 2007
• Commentary: Is ethical forensic psychiatry an oxymoron? 30 Dec 2007
• Commentary: 1982 was AAPL's year of living dangerously. 30 Dec 2007
• The ethical boundaries of forensic psychiatry: a view from the ivory tower. Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law 12:209-19, 1984. 30 Dec 2007
• When killing isn't murder: psychiatric and psychological defences to murder when the insanity defence is not applicable. 29 Nov 2007
• Cruelty to the mentally ill: an Eighth Amendment challenge to the abolition of the insanity defense. 30 May 2007
• ["Querulousness", anti-psychiatry, and the public around 1900] 30 Dec 2006
• Isaac Ray's bibliography: some addenda and Ray's evidence-based thinking. 30 Dec 2006
• The differing views on insanity of two nineteenth century forensic psychiatrists. 29 Sep 2006
• The brain-disordered defendant: neuroscience and legal insanity in the twenty-first century. 29 Sep 2006
• Fitness to be sentenced: a historical, comparative and practical review. 22 May 2006
• [The Leipzig Magistrates Court's death sentences in the Woyzeck case] 14 Feb 2006
• The Aum Cult leader Asahara's mental deviation and its social relations. 30 Jan 2006

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Technical information about 'Insanity Defense'

Definition: A legal concept that an accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of committing the act, the person was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act done or if the act was known, to not have known that what was done was wrong. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed)

Descriptor UI: D007298

Alternative terms: Insanity Defense; Defense, Insanity; M'Naghten Rule; Rule, M'Naghten; McNaughton Rule; Rule, McNaughton; Criminal Insanity; Insanity, Criminal;

Related Mesh Headings: Mental Competency;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F04.096.544.335.528; I01.198.780.937.469.528; I01.880.604.583.310.528; N03.706.535.351.528;

Online Note: use FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY to search MCNAUGHTON RULE 1969-84; use JURISPRUDENCE, PSYCHIATRIC to search MCNAUGHTON RULE 1968

History Note: 91(85); was see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1985-90; was MCNAUGHTON RULE see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1969-84; was MCNAUGHTON RULE see under JURISPRUDENCE, PSYCHIATRIC 1968