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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 5 page paper examines the bare bones of a
case in light of the "insanity plea."
History of the development of this plea is given as
well as court law sited. Bibliography lists 5
sources.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBinsane.doc.
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The history of psychologys association with the law is more extensive than most people realize. As early as 500 BC, Aristotle defined criminal responsibility in
terms of psychological intent: "A person is morally responsible if, with knowledge of the circumstances, and the absence of external compulsion, he deliberately chooses to commit a forbidden act." This
statement sums up most of modern law in one sentence, including the basic ideas behind todays standard insanity defense pleas. The Case
A Tufts University professor and father of three children, who after becoming obsessed with a "Combat Zone" hooker, eventually bludgeoned her to death at his home, by
means of a hammer, cracking open the victims skull. The Argument The insanity defense was not formally made a
part of law until the MNaghten case in England, 1843. It was in this case that the first substantive test for insanity was established, the MNaghten rule. This clarification of
the courts stance on insanity and non-responsibility stated: "To establish a defense of insanity, it must be proved that at the time of committing the act, the party accused was
laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did
know it, that he did not know he was doing something wrong. The MNaghten rule became standard in the United States in 1864, and remained so until the late nineteenth
century when some state and federal courts adopted the irresistible impulse test, which focused on the inability of one to control ones actions. A person who committed a crime in
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