Insanity Defense

The Insanity Defense is a legal defense in criminal law that belongs to the category of affirmative defenses, distinguished by its reliance on a defendant’s mental disorder at the time of the offense to establish lack of criminal responsibility.

449

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15.5K

Citations

549

Authors

248

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2017–2026

Parents

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Children

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Publications

449

A treatise on insanity and other disorders affecting the mind.

James Cowles Prichard · 1835 · 506 citations · Full text

Medicine, Jurisprudence, Psychiatry +10

Madness and civilization. A history of insanity in the age of reason

Denis Leigh · Journal of Psychosomatic Research · 1968 · 497 citations

Humanities, History, Religion +10

A STUDY OF ASSOCIATION IN INSANITY

Grace H. Kent, Aaron J. Rosanoff · American Journal of Psychiatry · 1910 · 359 citations · Full text

Law, Sociology, Psychology Of Religion +1

The Nature of Aggression during Epileptic Seizures

Antonio V. Delgado‐Escueta, Richard H. Mattson, Lambert N. King et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1981 · 223 citations

Law, Criminal Law, Neurology +10

Medication noncompliance in schizophrenia: codification and update.

John L. Young, Howard Zonana, Lynn Shepler · PubMed · 1986 · 198 citations

Medicine, Criminology, Psychiatry +15

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Authors

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Henry J. Steadman
Policy Research Associates, United States
14 publications · 857 citations
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Richard A. Pasewark
University of Wyoming, United States
8 publications · 285 citations
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Michael L. Perlin
New York Law School, United States
7 publications · 216 citations
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Stephen J. Morse
University of Pennsylvania, United States
6 publications · 205 citations
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Norman J. Finkel
Georgetown University, United States
5 publications · 146 citations
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248

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PubMed
Repository · 38 publications · 1.1K citations
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American Journal of Psychiatry
27 publications · 1.6K citations
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Behavioral Sciences & the Law
21 publications · 728 citations
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The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
24 publications · 695 citations
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Law and Human Behavior
15 publications · 760 citations
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