After the Insanity Defense
Author | : Matthew F. Shaw |
Publisher | : LFB Scholarly Publishing |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Matthew F. Shaw |
Publisher | : LFB Scholarly Publishing |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane Harman |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1250758785 |
An insider's account of America's ineffectual approach to some of the hardest defense and intelligence issues in the three decades since the Cold War ended. Insanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. As a nation, America has cycled through the same defense and intelligence issues since the end of the Cold War. In Insanity Defense, Congresswoman Jane Harman chronicles how four administrations have failed to confront some of the toughest national security policy issues and suggests achievable fixes that can move us toward a safer future. The reasons for these inadequacies are varied and complex, in some cases going back generations. American leaders didn’t realize soon enough that the institutions and habits formed during the Cold War were no longer effective in an increasingly multi-power world transformed by digital technology and riven by ethno-sectarian conflict. Nations freed from the fear of the Soviets no longer deferred to America as before. Yet the United States settled into a comfortable, at times arrogant, position as the lone superpower. At the same time our governing institutions, which had stayed resilient, however imperfectly, through multiple crises, began their own unraveling. Congresswoman Harman was there—as witness, legislator, exhorter, enabler, dissident and, eventually, outside advisor and commentator. Insanity Defense is an insider’s account of decades of American national security—of its failures and omissions—and a roadmap to making significant progress on solving these perennially difficult issues.
Author | : Richard Moran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Criminal intent |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Patrick Ewing |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2008-04-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0198043694 |
The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily on lengthy testimony by expert psychologists and psychiatrists. Several of them played a major role in shaping the criminal justice system as we know it today. In this book, Ewing skillfully conveys the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. For the legal or psychological professional, as well as the interested reader, Insanity will take you into the minds of some of the most incomprehensible murderers of our age.
Author | : Abraham S. Goldstein |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1967-01-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780300000993 |
The insanity defense has become the most passionately debated issue in criminal law, a debate marked by slogans and stereotypes. Mr. Goldstein offers a reasoned study of that debate and the current rules behind the law, as well as a careful examination of what might be expected from any new rules now proposed.
Author | : Mark D. White |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2017-01-23 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
How often is the defense of insanity or temporary insanity for accused criminals valid—or is it ever legitimate? This unique work presents multidisciplinary viewpoints that explain, support, and critique the insanity defense as it stands. What is the role of "the insanity defense" as a legal excuse? How does U.S. law handle criminal trials where the defendant pleads insanity, and how does our legal system's treatment differ from those of other countries or cultures? How are insanity defenses used, and how successful are these defenses for the accused? What are the costs of incarceration versus psychiatric treatment and confinement? This book presents a range of expert viewpoints on the insanity defense, exposing common myths; investigating its effectiveness and place in our legal system through history, case studies, and comparative analysis; and supplying perspectives from the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and neuroscience. The content also addresses the ramifications of declaring citizens insane or incapacitated and examines trials that involved pleas of insanity and temporary insanity.
Author | : Paul H. Robinson |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-06-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1440860122 |
Distributive principles of criminal law -- Habitual offender statutes -- Death penalty -- Legality requirement -- Provocation/extreme emotional disturbance -- Felony murder -- Causation -- Transferred intent -- Consent to injury -- Mental illness negating an offense element (MINOE) -- Attempt -- Complicity -- Complicity liability of co-conspirators -- Lesser evils/necessity defense -- Self-defense -- Law enforcement authority -- Insanity defense -- Immaturity defense -- Statute of limitations -- Exclusionary rule -- Entrapment defense -- Criminalizing risk creation -- Statutory rape -- Domestic violence, spousal rape exemption -- Stalking and harassment -- Child neglect -- Deceptive business practices -- Extortion -- Adultery -- Criminal obscenity -- Child pornography -- Drug offenses -- Firearms possession offenses -- Antitrust predatory pricing -- Organized crime -- Fixing sporting events -- Extradition -- Jurisdiction
Author | : Henry J. Steadman |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1993-05-21 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780898622805 |
The insanity acquittal of John Hinckley in June, 1982 for the attempted assassination of then President, Ronald Reagan, sparked a flurry of legislative rhetoric and public inquiry about how to stop such "abuses." State and federal legislators, buttressed by professional associations' resolutions for reform, responded with a wide array of proposals for statutory reform insanity defense. Based on six years of research--which constituted the largest study ever conducted of insanity defense pleas in the U.S.--this book describes the impact of the reforms instituted both before and after Hinckley's assassination attempt. In so doing, the volume offers the most authoritative, empirically sound answers to controversial questions about who uses the insanity defense, about its presumed abuses, and about what really happens when legislators respond to public pressure to tighten statutes.
Author | : Charles L. Scott |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199368465 |
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Author | : David M. Nissman |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Aliénation mentale - Oregon - Législation |
ISBN | : 9780669039436 |