Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disagree because society must decide through the criminal law what is morally tolerable and what is not, Killing or seriously wounding in self-defense may well be morally tolerable: killing or seriously wounding in response to mild or severe mental illness, religious fanaticism, economic disadvantage, sociological anomie, philosophical existentialism, radical politics, literary accomplishment, or infatuation ought...
...proposed solution is the "guilty-but-mentally-ill" verdict already used in Michigan and Idaho, and under consideration in many other states, including Pennsylvania, Illinois and Colorado. By finding a defendant guilty but mentally ill, a jury declares the defendant, though mentally disturbed, satisfied the legal test for understanding the difference between right and wrong. The verdict sends a signal to the judge that mental treatment should be included in the criminal's sentence. Unlike legally insane offenders, those found guilty but mentally ill complete a mandatory incarceration period; they cannot be released upon recovery from their mental affliction...
...SITUATION involving a guilty-but-mentally-ill verdict, the jury would make a two-step determination. First, under the existing standard of ability to distinguish right from wrong, the jurors would decide if the defendant was legally sane at the time he committed the offense for which he is on trial. Only if the jury finds the defendant legally sane can it consider the second question of whether some mental deficiency short of insanity played a role in the commission of the crime. Because the jury uses the current insanity test, any defendant found not guilty by reason of insanity...
Still, critics were kind and generally encouraging about the first week's programs, which ranged from a tedious game show to Walter, a stops-out original television film starring Ian McKellen as a retarded outcast assaulted during his first night in a mental hospital by a hunchbacked midget. All the shows will be developed for Channel 4 by independent producers; by subsidizing 20 full-length features for the Film on Four series, Chief Executive Jeremy Isaacs hopes that his channel can help rejuvenate the country's languishing movie industry. As Britain settles in with Channel...
...been funded since its first cases in June 1981 by the Ford Foundation and other private grants Probation officers refer CHINS cases to Project case coordinators, who suggest to the parties involved the mediation alternative. Project director Sandra A. Wixted says that "very disorganized families, or families with severe mental problems, tend to screen themselves out": either they do not accept mediation or they fail to appear for scheduled mediation sessions...