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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"insanity"”.
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Examining individual differences in attitudes toward the insanity defense
1 PDF file (viii, 79 pages)
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The Perception and Treatment of Insanity in Southern Appalachia
… term for mental health specialists) to cure insanity eventually led to lavishly-constructed insane asylums supported by taxpayers. Simultaneously, the hope of a cure and a changing attitude toward insanity helped destigmatize mental illness and made institutionalization of the insane more …
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Extending the frontier of the Nigerian insanity defence: comparative analyses of the insanity defence in England and Scotland to offer alternative options for development.
… situation is challenging when a defendant raises insanity as a defence to criminal responsibility, because not every case of insanity relieves an accused of criminal responsibility. Courts find it challenging to determine what type of insanity relieves a person of criminal responsibility. The idea …
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Resolving Insanity: Improving Professional Development Structures to Support Student Success
… Albert Einstein is credited with defining insanity as, “doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.” This definition rings true in education, specifically in Texas, as leaders continue in their attempt to improve test scores while providing professional …
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Framing Femininity as Insanity: Representations of Mental Illness in Women in Post-Classical Hollywood
… 1970s, this project explores the ways in which insanity in women has been linked to their femininity and the expression or repression of their sexuality. An analysis of films from Hollywood's post-classical period (The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Lizzie (1957), Lilith (1964), Repulsion (1965), …
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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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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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