forensic: insanity defense

The response of a criminal defendant requesting to be excused for misconduct on the basis of mental condition. The American Law Institute test and M'Naghten tests are the two most widely utilized insanity defense standards.*

Also: not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI)

• wild beast
• Durham rule
• irresistible impulse | volitional arm
• cognitive arm
• federal rule of 1984

• Aaronson, David E. & Simon, Rita James The Insanity Defense: A Critical Assessment of Law and Policy in the Post-Hinckley Era Hardcover | Paperback 1988
• Bonnie, Richard J., et al Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr.: A Case Study in the Insanity Defense Paperback
• Caplan, Lincoln The Insanity Defense and the Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. Hardcover | Mass Market Paperback (1987)
• Goldstein, Abraham S. The Insanity Defense Hardcover 1980
• Gothika (2003) DVD widescreen | DVD Halle Berry, Robert Downey, Jr., Charles Dutton
• Insanity Defense - A Bibliographic Research Guide-With 1986 Supplement Hardcover 1985

• The Jacket DVD Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, and Kris Kristofferson 2005

• Les Miserables DVD Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, and Christopher Adamson 1998
• Low, Peter W. et al The Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. - A Case Study in the Insanity Defense (University Casebook Series) Paperback 1986
• Moran, Richard Knowing Right from Wrong - The Insanity Defense of Daniel McNaughtan
• Nuts DVD Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss 1987
• Perlin, Michael L. The Jurisprudence of the Insanity Defense Hardcover 1993
• Robinson, Daniel N. Wild Beasts and Idle Humours - The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present Hardcover 1996
• Simon, Rita James The Jury & the Defense of Insanity Paperback 1999 | Hardcover 1967
• Simon, Rita James & Aaronson, David E. The Insanity Defense Hardcover 1988 | Paperback 1988
• Slovenko, Ralph Psychiatry and Criminal Culpability Paperback 1995
• Spider DVD Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne 2002
• Starr, Randy Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity: One Man's Recovery Paperback 2000
• Steadman, Henry J. et al Before and After Hinckley - Evaluating Insanity Defense Reform Hardcover 1993

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