Forensic populations in the United States are increasing, driven largely by a rise in individuals
determined to be Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST). Across most states, including California…

In 2003, Arizona began a jail-based restoration to competency program for detainees in its
largest jail system in Phoenix. Today, jail-based competency programs have become the rule …

This article focuses on the preferred disposition for an individual charged with a serious
crime against another person, adjudicated incompetent to stand trial and not restorable to …

The US Ninth Circuit is the largest of the federal appeals courts, encompassing the states of
Alaska, Washington, and Oregon to the north, Hawaii, Guam, and the Northern Mariana …

Arizona’s insanity defense and post-insanity procedures have evolved over the last 30 years
into a unique system. Arizona moved from a typical M’Naughten-based insanity defense to …

The recent US Supreme Court case of Kahler v. Kansas determined that the Kansas mens
rea laws were sufficient to stand as the state's only insanity defense statute. In this issue of …

Forensic populations in the United States are increasing, driven largely by a rise in
individuals determined to be incompetent to stand trial (IST). 1 According to the California …

In the post-Hinckley era, four states (Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Kansas) abolished their
traditional insanity statutes in 1979 in favor of what are in certain circumstances mens rea …

" The history of serious mental illness (SMI) is grim, from a cultural as well as a treatment
perspective. The conditions of individuals with psychotic disorders have swung, like a pendulum…

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Barbara E. McDermott, Katherine Warburton, … Kirkorsky, Mary Gable, and Katherine Warburton …