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The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily o

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Preface ; Introduction ; 1. Jacob Rubenstein ; 2. Robert Torsney ; 3. David Berkowitz ; 4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr ; 5. Arthur Shawcross ; 6. Scott Panetti ; 7. Eric Smith ; 8. Andrew Goldstein ; 9. Eric Michael Clark ; 10. Andrea Yates ; Epilogue

Insanity

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      Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
      Published 4/24/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780195326130
      978-0195326130
      ISBN-10 019532613X
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      Criminal or forensic psychology

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      Book Synopsis
      The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily o

      Table of Contents
      Preface ; Introduction ; 1. Jacob Rubenstein ; 2. Robert Torsney ; 3. David Berkowitz ; 4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr ; 5. Arthur Shawcross ; 6. Scott Panetti ; 7. Eric Smith ; 8. Andrew Goldstein ; 9. Eric Michael Clark ; 10. Andrea Yates ; Epilogue

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