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A 10 page paper which examines mental illness as a
legal excuse 2 sources cited. No bibliography provided due to the fact that articles used
were faxed by student requesting paper and authors of texts are unknown.
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excuse for criminal acts. There is a great deal of debate as to what constitutes reasonable illness when it comes to leniency in the courtroom. In essence, one who is
considered legally insane in the face of the law is often put into an institution and treated far less harshly than those who are not considered mentally ill. As such
it is seen as an excuse for many in terms of getting off with a lighter sentence. With that in mind the following paper provides an overview of two separate
chapters from two different texts as it relates to the topic at hand. The chapters, and/or texts, are titled "The Meaning of Criminal Insanity: Legal Interpretation of Insanity" and "Mental
Disorder and the Law." No authors are cited as no authors as they were unknown and not provided in the texts which were faxed by the student. The Meaning
of Criminal Insanity: Legal Interpretation of Insanity In the very opening of this particular essay the author notes that, "It is surprising, but I believe it to be essentially true,
that, in spite of the long history of the insanity plea and the flood of discussion in recent decades, very little attempt has been made to explore carefully the legal-moral
rationale for this plea and the heart of its meaning. The desirability of even raising these questions seems hardly to have been noticed: the purpose of the insanity defense either
has been assumed to be so obvious as not to require articulation, or has been expressed in such vague generalizations as to afford no basis for evaluating the multitude of
formulae" (123). The author then illustrates that in the modern court and in the court of the past, it seems that children and the mentally ill are not held
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