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- Publisher
- Springer Journals
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1999 by Plenum Publishing Corporation
- Subject
- Psychology; Law and Psychology; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general; Personality and Social Psychology; Community and Environmental Psychology
- ISSN
- 0147-7307
- eISSN
- 1573-661X
- DOI
- 10.1023/A:1022316216470
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Following the highly publicized insanity acquittal of John Hinckley in 1982, legislators throughout the country attempted to reform the insanity defense. At the time, policy makers had virtually no empirical evidence with which to guide their reforms. The focus of this research is to determine if more informed policy-making would be possible today? Results show that more states are able to identify cases involving an insanity acquittal than during the 1980's and provide annual data on the number of rate of insanity acquittals. The data collected by many of the states have significant limitation.
Journal
Law and Human Behavior – Springer Journals
Published: Sep 30, 2004