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. Our law office understands that when people hire an attorney, they are often experiencing very stressful situations. These people need someone who cares about them. The Montes Law Firm makes sure our clients not only receive high-quality legal services, but also the support and resources they deserve. Montes Law Firm provides the Houston area with trustworthy legal representation concerning criminal and family law. Presenter: Phillip Barbour. Master Trainer . Center for Health and Justice at TASC (CHJ). About the Presentation. Thinking errors in criminals continue to expand into almost all areas of their lives and they regularly fail to deter their distorted thinking which results in regular violence and harm of others. These thinking errors are similar for the addicted offender as well, leading to substance use and criminal activity. This webinar is an overview of the criminal and addictive thinking patterns and their similarities, tactics used by the addicted offender in an effort to mask their . 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 f. oundations. What behavior deserves . criminal . punishment?. Universal question. Variation. Decisions based on historical norms & morals. As complex as human behavior. Expanding rapidly. Two types. 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. 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. and Cyber Crime. © . 2013 . Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part, except for use as permitted in a license distributed with a certain product or service or otherwise on a password-protected website for classroom use.. 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”.. A crime is a wrong against society . The main purpose of criminal law is to protect society and maintain the peace. The Criminal Law . System. Purposes of Mainstream Canadian Criminal Law . maintain order. Salva. Background & Early Life. Born . in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on May 29, 1955, John Warnock Hinckley Jr. became infamous in 1981 for his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. . He had a seemingly . 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..