PPT-Criminal Insanity

How do you determine if someone is criminally insane Insanity defense is the defense that the defendant is not responsible for their actions during an episode of mental illness Very Brief History of The Insanity Defense. from Equality Perspective. Tina Minkowitz, JD. Issues with Insanity Defense. Underpinning of forced psychiatry and legal inferiority. Tension/contradiction with premise of full and equal legal capacity. Vanessa Arnold &. Annie newberry. Passive Resistance, The Insanity Plea, Civil Disobedience, and Mob Rule. Literary and Legal Terms. Transcendentalism: A literary and philosophical movement “based on the premise that truth is innate in all of creation and that knowledge of it is intuitive rather than rational.”. 6 types of criminal defense. Insanity. Intoxication. Ignorance. Age. Entrapment. Justification. Insanity. Defendant’s state of mind negates his/her criminal responsibility.. “Not guilty by reason of insanity.”. INSANITY BY REASON OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DEFECT) Penal Law Test 2: Passage 2. SOCIAL . SCIENCE:. . This passage is adapted from the chapter “Personality Disorders” in . Introduction to Psychology. , edited by Rita L. Atkinson and Richard C. Atkinson (©1981 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.).. Criminal Procedure. Goals:. Know the rights a person has when . arrested. Recognize a person’s potential criminal liability for the actions of . others. Understand the justifiability of the common defenses to criminal charges. Forensic Session 4. Curriculum Links. 12.2. Psychiatry and the. Criminal Justice System. 12.2.2. Psychiatric defences: fitness to plead,. mutism and deafness, criminal responsibility, diminished responsibility, amnesia and automatism. General. It is only the . insanity at the time of the offence . which matters, not insanity afterwards. (insanity afterwards may be relevant when deciding whether D should stand trial. ). Burden and Standard of proof. Activity. Murder. Murder is the killing of another person without justification or valid excuse, and it is especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought. . -Mariam Webster. “Keep in mind that Mr. . McMurphy. is . committed. . The length of time he spends in this hospital is entirely up to us.” (158). What does it mean to be committed?. What do we already know about the insanity defense? Anything?. Insanity. M’Naghten. 1843. Daniel . M’Naghten. had become so obsessed with the then Prime Minister, Robert Peel, that he decided to shoot him. . Instead, he missed and shot and killed the Prime Minister’s secretary, Edward Drummond.. Automatism. Automatism. For automatism to work as a defence, the actions of the defendant must be completely . involuntary.. Bratty -v- Attorney General for Northern Ireland (1963). “an act done by the muscles without any control by the mind, such as a spasm, a reflex action or a convulsion; or an act done by a person who is not conscious of what he is doing such as an act done whilst suffering from concussion or whilst sleep walking”.. Complete the handouts and answer the questions on: . Scientific process. Role of peer review. Research methods (2/10) at lunch time. . This week. Neural explanations. Dealing with offender behaviours. and . intoxication. Insanity. M’Naghten. 1843. Daniel . M’Naghten. had become so obsessed with the then Prime Minister, Robert Peel, that he decided to shoot him. . Instead. , he missed and shot and killed the Prime Minister’s secretary, Edward Drummond..