 Insanity Defense
"Insanity Defense" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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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)
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D007298
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F04.096.544.335.528 I01.198.780.937.469.528 I01.880.604.583.310.528 N03.706.535.351.528
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Insanity Defense" by people in Profiles.
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Wortzel HS. The DSM-5 and forensic psychiatry. J Psychiatr Pract. 2013 May; 19(3):238-41.
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Wortzel HS, Arciniegas DB. Amnesia and crime: a neuropsychiatric response. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2008; 36(2):218-23.
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Fox PK. Commentary: Biases that affect the decision to conditionally release an insanity acquittee. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2008; 36(3):337-9.
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Hope L, Greene E, Memon A, Gavisk M, Houston K. A third verdict option: exploring the impact of the not proven verdict on mock juror decision making. Law Hum Behav. 2008 Jun; 32(3):241-52.
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Wortzel H, Metzner J. Clark v. Arizona: diminishing the right of mentally ill individuals to a full and fair defense. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2006; 34(4):545-8.
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Gilani AI, Gilani UI, Kasi PM, Khan MM. Psychiatric health laws in Pakistan: from lunacy to mental health. PLoS Med. 2005 Nov; 2(11):e317.
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Seig A, Ball E, Menninger JA. A comparison of female versus male insanity acquittees in Colorado. Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1995; 23(4):523-32.
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Rogers JL, Bloom JD, Manson SM. Oregon's Psychiatric Security Review Board: a comprehension system for managing insanity acquittees. Ann Am Acad Pol Soc Sci. 1986 Mar; (484):86-99.
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Bloom JD, Rogers JL, Manson SM, Williams MH. Lifetime police contacts of discharged Psychiatric Security Review Board clients. Int J Law Psychiatry. 1986; 8(2):189-202.
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Rogers JL, Bloom JD, Manson SM. Insanity defenses: contested or conceded? Am J Psychiatry. 1984 Jul; 141(7):885-8.
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