Essays on Insanity Defense

For many years it has been quite difficult to differentiate criminality and mental disorders. Many cases have led to uproar on the basis of the mental status of the accused raising the question of insanity defense. Although all criminal activities committed are not as a…

The insanity defense plea is a petitionused in trials when a defendant claims that they are legally insane and were not capable of differentiating right from wrong at the time of the crime. A good case is the Aurora Theater Shooting,where the preliminary hearing for…

Every day a crime is committed in the United States by citizens who may or may not deserve jail time for their actions. Every day in the United States, the mental health crisis is growing. There are times when these two issues overlap and there…