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Sr Care Pharm
March 2025
Dumbarton Group & Associates Health Care Law and Policy Firm Health Care Law and Policy Firm The Foundry Building 1050 30th Street, NW Washington, DC 20007.
Bull Am Acad Psychiatry Law
February 1997
New York Law School, New York 10013, USA.
The author presents the case that society's efforts to understand the insanity defense and insanity-pleading defendants are doomed to intellectual, moral, and political gridlock unless we are willing to take a fresh look at the doctrine through a series of filters-empirical research, scientific discovery, moral philosophy, cognitive and moral psychology, and sociology-in an effort to confront the single most important (but rarely asked) question: why do we feel the way we do about "these people" (insanity pleaders)? He examines this question finally through a model of structural anthropology and concludes that until we come to grips with the extent to which ours is a "culture of punishment," we can make no headway in solving the insanity defense dilemma.
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