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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Insanity defense"”.
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Examining individual differences in attitudes toward the insanity defense
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Criminally responsible or insane? the influence of jurors' concept of self toward the insanity defense
… locus of control and verdict. Three hypothetical insanity cases were constructed: mental illness, mental retardation, and drug intoxication, and were randomly distributed to 96 graduate students from a mid- Atlantic university. Participants read a murder vignette and selected a verdict-either …
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Using A Flow-Chart to Reduce Juror's Pre-Existing Biases In Cases Utilizing The Insanity Defense
Many people believe that the insanity defense is used to avoid responsibility for committing a crime and that it returns dangerous individuals back to the streets. Due to the fact that it is difficult to separate such pre-existing attitudes from evidence presented throughout the trial, many jurors …
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Lay decision-making and the insanity defense: The impact of evidence, judicial instructions, case construals, and attitudes on attributions of criminal responsibility
… objective was to measure attitudes towards the insanity defense and punishment, and to examine their relations with decisional behavior. A second sample ($n$ = 64) in which attitudes were measured before exposure to experimental vignettes was contrasted with subjects who rated attitudes after …
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The effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdict: psychiatry versus psychology
… served as mock jurors and were presented with an insanity case which either (a) a PhD testified for the defense and a MD testified for the prosecution or (b) an MD testified for the defense and a PhD testified for the prosecution. After analysis of verdicts, an Insanity Defense Attitudes Survey, …
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Representations of Insanity in Art and Science of Nineteenth-Century France: From the Demonic to the Degenerate
This thesis seeks to analyze depictions of insanity in the nineteenth century, especially in France. Through research into the history of psychiatry and the history of image culture, I intend to explain the changing views of madness. Varying genres of art are used to explore these ideological …
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A structuralist reading of selected works by Edgar Allan Poe
… it reinforces the narrator's growing state of insanity and ultimate loss of self. These figures of speech reflect the narrator's unstable state of mind, a state that inevitably leads to a collapse of the self. This instability is reflected in other Poe narrators. Through a review of the …