Exam 10: The Insanity Defense

Which definition of insanity includes both a cognitive prong and a volitional prong?

Almost half of the U.S. states allow for a guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) verdict. Many scholars question the GBMI verdict since it does not guarantee that the offender will:

In modern jurisprudence, the presumption is that a criminal defendant is _____ and therefore _____ for his or her crimes.

The concept that individuals with impaired cognitive understanding should not be held culpable, was used as early as the Roman Empire. Roman law classified those individuals to be non compos mentis, or:

The psychiatric illnesses most commonly associated with successful insanity pleas include all of the following, EXCEPT:

Even though there has been a lot of agonizing among legal scholars and legislators over the exact wording in the definition of insanity, the key question is how _____ interpret these definitions when deliberating a verdict. Research shows that they use their _____ notions of insanity.

Most of what people believe about the insanity defense is mistaken. For example, the proportion of felony cases where the defendant uses the insanity defense is less than _____; and when the insanity defense is used, it is successful in about ____ of those cases.

Mark has been suffering from schizophrenia for many years, and his delusions and hallucinations are sometimes hard to control even with medication. If he commits a crime, he:

The principle of punishment known as retribution is embodied by the following saying:

The M'Naghten rule lists several components to meet the standard of legal insanity. One of the components is that, at the moment of the crime, the accused must have:

The idea of the insanity defense is based on the principle that:

A highly publicized 1978 trial in California brought up the influence of heavy ingestion of junk food on a person's mental state. The defense of the accused, Dan White, was referred to as the:

What major changes were instituted to the insanity defense after the trial of John Hinckley?

If prosecutors contest insanity, jurors are typically not informed that the defendant would not go free if found NGRI. A study cited in the text has found that telling jurors what happens to a defendant found NGRI:

Why is it difficult to evaluate insanity? What factors make it different from the evaluation of competency to stand trial (CST)?

One of the most famous examples of malingering involved the serial killer Kenneth Bianchi who was pretending to be _____ and faked _____.

For the most part, changes in insanity law result from the public's reaction to:

An increasing use of neuroscientific evidence like brain scans in the courtroom led to the creation of a new interdisciplinary field called _____. A fundamental conflict embedded in this interdisciplinary field concerns the issue of _____.

The Insanity Defense Reform Act (IDRA) of 1984 required that the _____ prove the insanity of the defendant at the time of the crime _____.

Mens rea refers to _____, whereas actus reus refers to _____.