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The Insanity Plea in the Case of a Serial Killer925 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, and Section of Criminological Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, and Department of Criminology and Law Studies, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, U.S.A.
Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233 and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, U.S.A. The authors comment on society's approach to criminal responsibility in the past and at present, and on the M'Naghten, the Durham, and the American Law Institute definitions of legal sanity. Some statistical studies concerning the frequency and success of the insanity plea in the United States are reported. The recent case of a serial killer, examined by the first author for the assessment of his legal sanity prior to his trial for fifteen homicides, is reported. This case raises insanity plea issues that fall outside the current American Law Institute insanity definition and the authors feel that it might contribute to further insanity plea reassessment in the years ahead.
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 38, No. 1,
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