Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sorry Barrows' bordello was closed. I hope her 3,000 clients will now become proponents of legalized prostitution. With all the social problems we must face, it is hypocritical to focus on this harmless "crime...
...support the insanity defense argue that it lends moral credence to criminal law. Perhaps the real problem is trying to find a formula that preserves the public's sanity. Put bluntly, acquittals such as Hinckley's insult our gut instincts and our primitive sense of justice. "Is Hinckley's crime," the trial prosecutor asked, "the crime of someone who does not know what he is doing and who is out of control, or is it the crime of someone who has an evil, twisted and perverted mind?" The difference between being sick and depressed, psychotic and merely "sad at Christmas...
...complaint that the defense is the handmaiden to moneyed justice, Caplan cites the 1972 Brawner decision. The opinion established the standard which holds that a person is not responsible for a crime if, as a result of mental disease, he or she lacks the capacity to "appreciate" the wrongfulness of his or her conduct. But the case also made light of a "well guarded secret." According to the opinion, the majority of responsibility cases concern indigents, not affluent defendants with easy access to legal and psychiatric assistance...
...acquittal by reason of insanity is rarely a ticket to freedom...a person who commits a crime is either responsible enough to deserve punishment or insane enough to deserve commitment...
...hospitals that are no better than prisons. Discussion centered on two legal reforms: allowing for a verdict of guilty but insane; and restricting the scope of the defense by limiting judgment to a defendant's criminal intent (mens rea is the proper legal term) at the moment of the crime...