The authors document the very complex process involved in identifying insanity defense
pleas in eight states. Each state and each study county in each state required an individual …

This book is about how research can inform policy debates over reforming the insanity defense.
It is about the actual operation of the insanity defense in real life. It is about how judicial …

The frequency of use of the insanity plea, the probability of being acquitted by reason of
insanity given the plea has been used, and the overall volume of insanity acquittees was …

We studied effects of guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) legislation on use of the insanity defense
in Georgia using data on all defendants entering an insanity plea before (1976–1981) and …

New York State's Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1980 outlined specific procedures for
conditional release to the community of persons found not guilty of a criminal offense by reason of …

Objective The authors' goal was to determine whether changing the insanity test in California
in 1982 actually affected use of the insanity defense. Method They gathered information on …

This paper presents a descriptive profile of clients placed on Conditional Release in New
York State between September 1980 and September 1987 (N=331). Data on the client's …

In 1980 New York State's Office of Mental Health began operation of a program designed to
provide a secure treatment unit at each of the 23 state psychiatric centers. As part of a …

Objective. —To assess the outcomes of health behavior interventions, focusing on the
elementary school environment, classroom curricula, and home programs, for the primary …

For scholars in the area of mental disability law, key indices of societal trends include decisions
by the US Supreme Court and reform legislation that deals with particular populations of “…